It took the jury less than a half hour to decide that Paul Schambs' oven on Grandview was not a public nuisance
Brooks Jones and Mika Jones in court Thursday. Jones had claimed for the past seven years that his neighbor Paul Schambs' backyard pizza oven was a public nuisance. A jury denied that in their verdict.
"Did the defendant, Paul Schambs and/or Mary Lynne Newsome negligently use the woodfired pizza oven on the defendants property?" Judge Shannon Gallagher read to the courtroom, citing the first complaint of a qualified nuisance.Throughout the trial, civil defense attorneys Sam Meadows and Nick Siciliano argued that the opposing side had failed to prove the pizza oven's smoke could be singled out as a problem, as opposed to other grills or smokers.
"I hope that this provides closure for everyone involved, certainly my clients, but also the Joneses," Meadows said after the verdict Thursday afternoon."This is something that's been going on for almost seven years. I don't see it as winning or losing. I see it as ending something that had gone on for too long.
"Smoke that causes physical symptoms is serious," Tizzano said in her closing arguments."We leave the house. We don't want to be exposed. We don't want our eyes to burn. We don't want a cough, we don't want to cough mucus."
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