Peters v. O'LEARY

Majority: SAUFLEY, C.J., and ALEXANDER, SILVER, MEAD, GORMAN, and JABAR, JJ.

Concurrence: ALEXANDER, J.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] Edgar E. and Sheryl A. Peters own a parcel of land in Ogunquit that abuts and is uphill from oeeanfront property owned by Richard D. O’Leary. This litigation arose because, after a series of disputes with the Peterses, O’Leary planted a row of at least seventy-four trees near the parties’ 125-foot-long boundary, which obstructed ocean views from the Peterses’ newly constructed home. The Superior Court (York County, Fritzscke, J.) found that O’Leary had created a nuisance…