McNeil v. Parker

Deen, Presiding Judge.

On February 1,1981, McNeil and Parker, who were neighbors, had an altercation over Parker’s child’s cutting across McNeil’s newly sown lawn. McNeil and his wife took pride in their lawn maintenance, and felt concern about neighborhood children cutting across their yard. On the day of the altercation, McNeil’s wife spoke to Parker’s 13-year-old daughter and requested that she and her friends discontinue using their lawn as a short cut, at least until the newly sown grass could become well rooted. Parker was somewhat disturbed by the McNeils’ addressing his daughter rather…