(You must be seeing a lot of discussion of this matter, having posted
it to 5 newsgroups.)

I just checked the original post, which refers to a "monster" tree,
with not only branches but part of the trunk now impinging on
neighboring property. It's too bad that this couldn't have been worked
out amicably before tree damaga was done, or lawyers called in. You
might have paid for a diversion in their fence to accomodate the tree,
or agreed that the tree, however sentimental its ancestry, could be
done away with, and shared the removal cost. Much cheaper than
litigation, I expect. Now you have a damaged tree AND an adversarial
relationship with your neighbor. Whatever the legal outcome, and I'd
be on your neighbor's side at this point, you will have lost.


if you knew them, you wouldn't be. BTW, we offered to pay for any
modifications to the fence--they refused.