Steven W. Smollens: The 1908 case is Jacobs v. Morand, and the court there relied upon another court???s decision, made in the case of Pomeroy v. Tyler, 9 N.Y. St. Rep. 514, where the quote goes as follows: ??????the case of rats, mice, bugs, roaches or other vermin, and all questions as to them must be decided according to the wisdom of the common law.