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    PRIVATE NUISANCE

         To recover damages for private nuisance, plaintiff must show by the greater weight of evidence that

      1. Defendant [authorized or used] [permitted another to carry on conduct] [or] [allowed a condition to exist] on defendant’s real property that substantially interfered with plaintiff’s possession, use, or enjoyment of plaintiff’s property; 

      2. Plaintiff [owned] [had a possessory interest in] the real property; and 

      3. That the interference with plaintiff’s use, possession, or enjoyment of plaintiff’s property was a proximate and foreseeable result of defendant’s unreasonable use of defendant’s property.

         In determining whether defendant’s use of defendant’s property is reasonable, you may consider the character and uses of the surrounding property. 

    Authority:  Jones v. Trawick, 75 So.2d 785 (Fla. 1954); Durrance v. Sanders, 329 So.2d 26 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976); Nitram Chemicals, Inc. v. Parker, 200 So. 2d 220 (Fla. 2d DCA 1967); Lee v. Fla. Public Util. Co., 145 So.2d 299 (Fla. 1st DCA 1962).