Comments on: “A Tree Falls in Connecticut” https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Sat, 17 May 2008 05:11:42 +0000 hourly 1 By: Katy https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3609 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 12:26:49 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3609 One of the factors that the indignant seem to ignore is the fact that the trees are not just on the city property if they are regularly dropping nuts on the homeowner’s property. Doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to say that the city is responsible for invading her property with a substance that may injure her grandchild. What steps the city chooses to resolve the problem(cut the trees, cut the problem tree limbs, install netting or another barrier, whatever) is up to the city, and maybe they didn’t choose the best one. It doesn’t seem unreasonable to me for a homeowner to take steps to stop an adjacent property owner from distributing material onto her property.

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3608 Tue, 01 Aug 2006 09:22:33 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3608 Charilie B,

That still doesn’t give her rights over other people’s property. The age of the child, in this case, is irrelevant.

]]> By: Charlie B https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3607 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:18:05 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3607 The reference is an op-ed. The Times published a more balanced for the Times news story about two weeks ago. The news story reports that the grandson is three which the op-ed ignores. The grandmother argues that telling a three year old child no is a challenge when his siblings and cousins are playing in and around the pool.

]]> By: nick d https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3606 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:47:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3606 Maybe just shut down the pool and save the trees 🙂

]]> By: E-Bell https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3605 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:26:55 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3605 It occurs to me that the woman’s fears could have been easily alleviated (and she’d be within her own rights) by cutting off the limbs of the tree that overhung her yard.

What’s so hard?

]]> By: Deoxy https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3604 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 09:40:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3604 Amy,

I’ve read a good bit of your website and many of your comments here, and we disagree on many topics.

But not on this one. EXCELLENT point.

]]> By: Amy Alkon https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3603 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:22:20 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3603 You’ve got a nut allergy, how about you stay out of the pool? What’s next, the kid’s allergic to dogs, so they ask that all the dogs in town be euthanized?

]]> By: bumper https://www.overlawyered.com/2006/07/a-tree-falls-in-connecticut/comment-page-1/#comment-3602 Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:06:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/?p=3771#comment-3602 One thing for sure these officials will never have to worry about failing a drug test for too much testosterone.

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