DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan court struck down a large chunk of an $88,550 verdict for a Detroit-area organic gardener whose beloved clover lawn was destroyed by a man spraying herbicide — at the wrong address.
Marilyn Mack reported depression, anxiety and random crying after what happened at her Oak Park home in 2020. The appeals court upheld a jury award of $22,400 for harm to the property but erased an additional $66,150 for noneconomic damages.
The court, in a 3-0 opinion, didn’t doubt Mack’s anguish. Rather its conclusion Thursday was a technical one, noting that Michigan law doesn’t allow noneconomic damages on a trespass claim.
Clover is a nuisance to some homeowners. To others, it is a joy. Mack lovingly seeded her lawn with clover and watched it grow while the plant also satisfied bees and other pollinators. more here
Not justice. What about punitive damages for carelessness and stupidity?
Michigan? Isn’t that the state where the FBI staged the governor’s kidnapping and assassination attempt to frame some unwitting souls? Michigan? Isn’t that the same state where the governor made it illegal to buy the seed to plant your lawn and garden during covid?
Property rights are the basis of ALL OTHER RIGHTS.
Wretched Witless, our guvner, would rather prattle on about Chinese energy companies she’s in bed with or f@@@ing us with cage free egg prices.
Diagnosis: Bitch
Prescription: Drug therapy and a ball gag
Like that’ll ever happen…
That’s why you need to have a 10 foot tall stone fence around your house. With a moat. And falcons. And a trebuchet.
Wait.. Where am I going with this?
I thought you were going with gators as well MJA, but they don’t do well in Michigan winters.
Hot Dawg! Whoever changed things Thank You! I can read it today.
Well now, I can probably find something shark-like.
That’s why you should have polar bears!
Hmmm. 🤣
Lived in a house that was built on a lot that had been a cow pasture, the yard was lousy with clover. Rabbits loved it.
@ MJA:”Wait.. Where am I going with this?”
Not sure where you’re headed but you’re off to a damn fine start!
Crows protecting the property.
A flock of crows has rightly earned the designation of ‘A murder of crows’.
I understand emotional damage here. Great care was taken and great results were being enjoyed. She was robbed of her work effort and passion. And great lawn.
I experienced this on a 1/100 scale and it still occupied my attention for days and had to quell expressing any anger at the d**b*ss.
He scalped the lawn between my driveway and his property line. Just included my part as if he was doing me a favor.
My St Augustine is mowed at the highest level the equipment has. It is luxurious to walk on in Summer. He cut down past the green parts and it threatened to wipe out that whole section in 105 degree heat days.
He darn well learned not to do it again. Kill your own yard if you want to, but stay away from mine, D.A..
MJA
Where are you going? Depends on where the line is for what you put in your trebuchet.
Sending large rocks is pretty destructive.
Sending sealed pots of oil with a lit wick is pretty serious.
Sending back prisoners alit with oil, is a whole other thing.