Zappa v. AUTOMOTIVE PRECISION MACHINERY, INC.

Sognier, Chief Judge.

Automotive Precision Machinery, Inc. (hereinafter “APM”) filed a complaint against Joe M. Zappa, Jr., the proprietor of a business on adjoining property, seeking to enjoin Zappa from trespassing across a common boundary and engaging in “destructive and violent behavior” such as destroying portions of structures on APM’s property with a blowtorch and obstructing drains so as to flood APM’s property. APM later amended the complaint to seek compensatory damages for injury to real and personal property and punitive damages based on the intentional nature of Zappa’s alleged…