Legal Opinion
Bahena v. Foster
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 16, 2005No. 787, September Term, 2004PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKrauser, J.
Joyce Kilmer wrote: “I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.” 1 He apparently never lived next to the Bahenas. What was to Kilmer a vision of ineffable beauty was to the Bahenas’ neighbors, appellees Jonathan and Janey Foster, an arboreal nightmare. Overhanging the Fosters’ house was Gary and Valerie Bahenas’ tree, large and purportedly in a state of decay. Uninterested in transforming their home into a tree house, the Fosters asked the Bahenas to remove the intruding trunk. When the Bahenas declined to do so, the Fosters filed a suit in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel…
2Cases cited14 opinions
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- State v. Roll and SchollCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1973
- McGaw v. Acker, Merrall & Condit Co.Court of Appeals of Maryland · 1909
- St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church, Inc. v. SmithCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
- Hess Construction Co. v. Board of EducationCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1996
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3Cited by8 opinions
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