Whitesell v. Houlton

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• overhanging branches are nuisances when they actually cause harm to property or the danger of their causing harm is imminent
• although “non-noxious plants ordinarily are not nuisances,” in cases where overhanging branches or roots cause harm to other property, “the damaged or imminently endangered neighbor may require the owner of the tree to pay for the damages[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).