Martha Murrell v. Jeanette Brown

¶14. I agree that there was some evidence to support a finding that Murrell or someone acting on her behalf committed a slight trespass by cutting tree branches on Brown’s property. Murrell “had the right at all times to ... remove so much of the [branches] as overhung [her] land.” Rogers v. Ford, 57 So.3d 681, 683 (¶ 7) (Miss.Ct.App.2011) (quoting Griefield v. Gibralter Fire & Marine Ins., 199 Miss. 175, 181, 24 So.2d 356, 358 (1946)); accord Buckingham v. Elliott, 62 Miss. 296, 300 (1884) (holding that if a tree’s branches “overhang a neighbor’s soil,” “[t]he neighbor has a remedy, in such…