Louisiana neighbors' land fight over 70 feet ends with $15K damages after dead cow appears

A decade of peaceful relations between neighbors in Union Parish, Louisiana, ended in a bitter court fight involving bright lights, power generators, large warning signs and a rotting cow carcass near a property line. A Louisiana appeals court has now upheld a lower court ruling that settled the dispute over a 70-foot strip of timberland. According to the court record published by Justia Law, the Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appeal affirmed a district court decision that placed the property line at an old downed wire fence. It also upheld damages of $15,000 against the landowners whose actions had led to the dispute. The ruling in consolidated docket numbers 56,654-CA and 56,655-CA requires Jesse Justin Colvin and his wife, Ruby Sue Hill Colvin, to pay $7,500 each to their neighbors, Robert Bradford Jones and Roni Michelle Reppond Jones. It also permanently bars the Colvins from further disruptions along the property line.From good neighbours to legal combatantsThe dispute involved two neighboring properties in Farmerville, Louisiana. Court records show that Jesse and Ruby Colvin bought a 23-acre property along Highway 828 on July 12, 2012, where they made their primary home. ...