Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Ohio

Harrassment by one neighbor

We have lived here for 30 years and the neighbors on our south side moved in about three years after we did. It became apparent that we could never could along so I asked them to stay on their property and mind their own business as Iwe would do the same. Over the years they have called the police to ask me not to clear my property near the property line. They have threatened me with bodily harm and unknowing to me as my children were growing up the neighbors went out of their way to harrass them and use vulgarity around them. I had hoped that they would move or at least cease their harrassment but they most recently came on my property to tell workers not to cut the trees that I had asked them and contracted them to cut. They also used profanity on the workers. They also had an attorney send us a registered letter requiring us to stop cutting our trees on or near their line. Is there anything we can do to stop this harrassment as it has become obvious they will not stop on their own?

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Asked on 11/25/03, 3:35 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Steven Martinek Steven Martinek Lawyer Ltd.

Re: Harrassment by one neighbor

You've been fussin' and feudin' with your neighbors for 27 years. I'd advise you to spend the next 27 days (which providentially will take you to Christmas) investing as much time and energy and effort praying for your neighbors as you have wasted trying to assert and protect your property rights. If that effort fails, then offer to buy them out, or offer to sell out to them. If thaat fails, sell to someone else. If you can't or won't resolve the problem in any of those ways, then pay for an accurate survey and pay to have a third-party erect the biggest permissible barricade fence, or wall, a full 5 feet on your property, leaving the 5 foot zone to maintain the neighbor's side of your personal "Berlin wall." (Does the phrase "Shame on you, both." have any current meaning?)

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Answered on 11/25/03, 3:57 pm


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