Legal Opinion
Rony v. Costa
California Court of Appeal
Decided October 26, 2012No. A128596; No. A128836PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BANKE, J.
To make way for an outdoor pizza oven in his backyard, defendant and appellant Paolo Costa hired a day laborer to remove overhanging tree limbs from nearby trees, one of which was a Monterey cypress growing on his neighbor’s, plaintiff and respondent Ellen Rony’s, property. However, the laborer not only trimmed limbs overhanging Costa’s property, he also lopped off portions of the cypress solely on Rony’s property. Distressed by the shearing of her tree, Rony sued Costa, but not the laborer, for wrongful injuries to timber. Following a bench trial, Rony was awarded $22,530 in…
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