Grossman v. St. John

JOSEPH M. ELLIS, Judge.

Jerald and Jilana Grossman (the Gross-mans) appeal from the trial court’s judgment denying their petition for injunctive relief and damages after their neighbors, Steve and Vicki St. John (the St. Johns) erected a fence on the Grossmans’ property. We reverse the trial court’s judgment.

The Grossmans lived in their current home since 1988. In 1994, the Grossmans erected a six-foot privacy fence around a portion of their backyard, leaving nine feet of their property in the rear excluded from the fence. This area of property is now the area in dispute.

At trial, Jerald…