>> Judge Judy:
Mr. And Ms. Lombard,
you have a vacant lot.
>> Yes, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy:
How large is the vacant lot?
>> The one adjoining
their property
is 4/7 of an acre.
We have four lots
adjoining their two.
>> Judge Judy:
And you've owned them
for a long time.
You've owned this lot.
I'm only interested in this lot.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy:
You've owned it for a long time.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: For what?
>> It's family property.
It was my grandfather's,
my father's and now mine,
sentimental reasons.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you live close by?
>> No, we live about a half hour
away
on the other side of Pueblo.
>> Judge Judy:
Do you think one day these...
all these little pieces
will be valuable?
>> No, it's just something
to leave for our children.
>> Judge Judy:
What do they do with it?
I mean, do they go
have a picnic there?
Do they use it for anything?
>> No, it's just vacant property
to build a house on.
Each one is, like,
a building property
if you wanted to build a house.
>> Judge Judy: How long
has it been in your family?
>> Well, my grandfather
since 1952.
>> Judge Judy:
And how long have you owned it?
>> I was third partnership
since 1984 and
half partnership since, oh...
>> Judge Judy:
Half partnership with whom?
>> First my grandmother,
then me and my brother.
My grandmother died.
Then me and my father
and my brother
sold out to [bleep],
and then my father sold out
to me after pretty much
all the property was gone
except this one little piece
on top of the hill.
I bought him out,
and we've kept it ever since.
>> Judge Judy: So who are you
in partnership with now?
>> My wife.
>> Judge Judy: Oh, just you
and your wife, okay.
It is your claim that
the defendant had cement blocks
on your property which caused
damage to the grass,
and you want her
to be responsible for that.
She says that she recently
bought the property.
These blocks were
on the property
where she bought the property.
She's sort of got a ridiculous
counterclaim that is the cost
of removing the blocks
because she moved them
further back on her property,
so that's sort of ridiculous.
If you didn't have to move them,
you didn't have to move them.
If you moved them,
it was because you knew
that they were at least
partially on his property.
>> Well, Your Honor,
I moved them
because they continuously
harassed me, my kids,
and I was just tired of it.
>> Judge Judy:
Well, I'm telling you, there are
other things that you could do.
You could call the police
and get a restraining order.
>> The police were involved
several times.
>> Judge Judy: You can
do a whole bunch of things,
but if you moved them,
you don't get paid for that.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
do you have photographs
of the concrete blocks...
>> Yes, we do.
>> Judge Judy:
...that you allege
were on the property?
And do you have photographs
of this lot of property
before there were blocks on it?
>> Yes.
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: You don't?
>> No, not before
the blocks were there.
>> Judge Judy: Why?
You've owned the property
for half a century.
>> Just...
>> Because we didn't have
any reason
to have a picture of it.
>> We're joined by eight
other neighbors, and nobody
has ever done something
like this to us before.
We've never had a problem.
>> Your Honor.
>> Practically everybody else
has their own fence.
>> Your Honor, these blocks have
been there since before I even
purchased the property, so...
>> Judge Judy: Listen to me.
I don't know.
They can't prove
that these blocks
weren't there 40 years ago.
This looks like
a whole junkyard anyway.
>> It does.
>> Judge Judy:
I don't know what you want.
>> You know, there's people
that go on top of that hill...
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
It looks like a junkyard.
What, do you want
have it made into a garden?
>> No.
>> No, that's her yard there.
>> Judge Judy: Where's yours?
>> Ours is just flat.
Ours is just...
>> Judge Judy: Well, I want
to see the concrete blocks
on your property.
That's what I want to see.
>> That's the slabs.
It's concrete slabs that...
what it appears is
that she put in a new patio,
knocked out the old patio
and piled the slabs
onto our property.
>> Judge Judy: I'm asking you
if this is your property.
>> Yes, it is.
>> Judge Judy:
It looks like dirt...
>> Yes.
It is.
>> Judge Judy: ...with concrete
slabs.
>> It's vacant property.
>> Judge Judy: Fine.
So she says she moved the slabs
off your property.
>> Later.
That's on our property
at this point.
>> Judge Judy: Who cares?
It's dirt.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy:
She moved it back off.
It's not as if you had
the botanical gardens,
and she destroyed it, sir.
>> No.
It's vacant property.
>> Judge Judy:
It looks like a junkyard.
>> Yes.
>> but it's our vacant property
that we want to keep
for our family.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
She's not paying you any money.
Do you have a picture of after
you moved these concrete blocks
back on your property?
>> Yes, I do.
>> Judge Judy:
I'd like to take a look at it.
>> And I also have pictures...
>> Judge Judy: Shh.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy:
Just show me the picture
when you moved it back
on your property.
Okay.
So this is now on your property?
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: Would you show
this to them and ask them
if the pile of rocks
and concrete are now
on the defendant's property?
>> I can't tell by this photo.
>> It's hard to tell
at that angle.
>> We have other photos,
but we did take a photo
after she did move it.
>> Judge Judy: So she moved it?
>> She did move it back
to her side
of the property, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy:
So what do you want?
>> We want to put up a fence...
>> Judge...
>> ...because there's
irreparable damage
to our property.
>> Judge Judy: No, there isn't.
Have an expert here showing me
there's irreparable damage
to this place, this vacant dirt.
>> Yes, but...
>> Judge Judy:
You're not getting any money.
I want you to get that idea
out of your brain.
[ Laughter ]