Echard v. Kraft

SALMON, Judge.

In “Mending Wall,” Robert Frost quotes his neighbor as having said, “Good fences make good neighbors.” Frost, however, knew that this was not always true, viz:

If I could put a notion in his head: “Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I’d build a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense.”

The case that gives rise to this appeal had its origin when one neighbor built a fence, which, to put it mildly, caused great offense. The fence was so offensive to appellant,…