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Case of the Day for February 18:
Don’t start singing “We are the World” just yet, but trees that grow on the boundaries between properties generally belong to us all, at least all of us who own the properties on which the tree sits. That’s the general law, but not in Colorado.
In this case, one neighbor planted the trees entirely on his property, but you know what happens when trees grow. These grew to cross the boundary line, at least until the neighbor cut them down. The Rhodigs claimed the trees that grew on both properties were owned as tenants in common, but a divided Court of Appeals disagreed. It held that whether the trees grew on the boundary wasn’t as important as was the agreement between the parties when the trees were planted. There has to be an agreement as to the planting, the care, or even the purpose of the trees, the Court said, because without an agreement, one party cannot have an ownership interest in something affixed to someone else’s land.
A spirited dissent argued the tradition English rule — that held that trees straddling a boundary belonged to both parties as tenants in common — makes more sense. Certainly, it saves a lot of judicial hair-splitting as to agreements and courses of dealing between two neighbors who were now in court.
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Arboriculture law varies from
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