Keidel v. Mehrer

VANDE WALLE, Justice.

Gene W. Keidel appealed from a district court order 1 granting the defendant’s motion for judgment on the pleadings and dismissing the complaint. We affirm.

In June 1989, the Stark County Sheriff’s Department was called to investigate a dispute between neighboring families. The dispute arose when a fence, owned by Wallace Messmer and bordering his property, was blown on to property owned by the Vernon Keidel family during a severe storm. Messmer and his wife had spent some time attempting to straighten the entangled fence while a portion of the fence remained on the…