Hi everyone,
By way of background, I live in Connecticut
We recently had new neighbors move in and the wife seems to be the kind of person who has to fuss with everything.
My property has several hundred feet of dry stack, free standing walls made with new england fieldstone. They are not super pretty or super neat, but they are classic rock walls that have been there for over a hundred years. The longest run of wall is on the border (literally straddles the border line) between my parcel and two other parcels. So, half the wall is mine, and half the wall is theirs.
Most recently my neighbor decided that the wall looked messy and paid to have several feet of it rebuilt--full thickness (IE portion of the wall on both sides of the property line), without asking me for my permission. In addition, there was an iron surveyors pin in the wall in a particular rock which has now been removed.
1. If a wall is a property boundary and straddles a property line--does either party have the right to modify the wall? Do both parties? The wall is an interwoven stack of rocks so it is not impossible to only modify one half and not the other.
2. Does this neighbor now have a legal obligation to pay a licensed surveyor to replace the pin? I assume so??
Thank you,
Fred
By way of background, I live in Connecticut
We recently had new neighbors move in and the wife seems to be the kind of person who has to fuss with everything.
My property has several hundred feet of dry stack, free standing walls made with new england fieldstone. They are not super pretty or super neat, but they are classic rock walls that have been there for over a hundred years. The longest run of wall is on the border (literally straddles the border line) between my parcel and two other parcels. So, half the wall is mine, and half the wall is theirs.
Most recently my neighbor decided that the wall looked messy and paid to have several feet of it rebuilt--full thickness (IE portion of the wall on both sides of the property line), without asking me for my permission. In addition, there was an iron surveyors pin in the wall in a particular rock which has now been removed.
1. If a wall is a property boundary and straddles a property line--does either party have the right to modify the wall? Do both parties? The wall is an interwoven stack of rocks so it is not impossible to only modify one half and not the other.
2. Does this neighbor now have a legal obligation to pay a licensed surveyor to replace the pin? I assume so??
Thank you,
Fred
Fences and Walls: Right to Modify Stone Wall on Property Line
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