Q: I bought a home in Florida Volusia county both sides of the house was overgrown with dead trees and vines .
My girlfriend and I spoke with the neighbor at least on four different occasions discussing removal of dead growth on property line neighbor said go ahead I'm too old and have not been able to maintain it so we went ahead and cleaned the line out of the dead brush and trees . This took us at least a month . while him and his wife watched out the window about two weeks later we are being sued he says he never gave us permission We do not have anything in writing it was all verbal he is asking for $10,000 in damages
A: What is it you want to know? If they sue you for damages, it will be a matter of your word against theirs. And, of course, they will have to prove that the property was damaged in that amount (normally decreased value of their real property). If it was merely dead trees and vines, it is difficult to imagine how they could prove that, even if the court were to be persuaded that they didn't agree.
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