SHIEL v. ROWELL

SJC-12432.

480 Mass. 106 (2018)

MARY SHIEL v. JOHN ROWELL & another.

Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, Norfolk.

July 16, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Spallina for the plaintiff.

Daniel S. McInnis for the defendants.

Present: GANTS, C.J., GAZIANO, LOWY, BUDD, CYPHER, & KAFKER, JJ.


At the root of this case lies a distinctively neighborly type of dispute about who should have the responsibility for monitoring and cutting back an intruding tree. The defendants, Keli-Jo and John Rowell,2 own the property adjacent to the plaintiff, Mary Shiel. On the Rowells' property sits a one hundred...

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