that --
>> It's the second
post in, ma'am.
Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: This one.
>> Yes, ma'am.
The second post
in is the one that was busted.
And it's in direct line
with the post that I guess
her fence people put up.
>> Can I see a picture?
I haven't even seen a picture.
I don't know about a post.
>> Judge Judy: Are you talking
about this split in the --
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: What are you --
>> The post itself.
>> Judge Judy: Oh, I see.
>> The post itself was --
>> Judge Judy: Down --
you're talking about down here.
>> Yes, ma'am.
Yeah, the post itself was --
was broke when
they erected her fence
on her property.
>> Judge Judy: Would you show
these to the defendant, please?
Anything else?
>> I just... Uh, the --
the survey, I just feel that.
>> Judge Judy: Survey?
I don't care what you feel.
You have a survey
for your own property.
>> Well, she contested
my survey.
That's why
I had to have a second survey.
>> Judge Judy: Good.
>> 'Cause she contested it.
But she knew the property lines
because her survey was done.
>> Judge Judy: Don't tell me
what she knew.
>> Well --
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Now, Ms. Allen --
I mean, I don't actually see
such a big deal
when you're talking about less
than a foot of property
that should create bad feeling
and animus
between two neighbors that are
going to have to live together.
So I actually
don't understand it.
But you are certainly entitled
to bring a lawsuit
if you feel as if your property
has been encroached upon,
and clearly, had it been
encroached upon.
She knew she had to move it.
She moved it.
You wanna do a survey,
a second survey.
She asked for it.
Somebody evidently said,
"Do it."
Did you go to the town?
>> No, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Were you involved
with the town at all?
>> No.
>> Judge Judy: Were you involved
with any authority?
>> No.
It's just when she contested
that survey,
the original survey --
>> Judge Judy: When you say
she contested,
that usually is a legal term.
>> She said that my survey
was wrong.
>> Judge Judy: Oh.
>> She didn't agree with it.
And so she went ahead
and built a fence on it.
After that, then I obtained
a survey to show
that she was wrong.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
And you fixed it because she --
>> Well, I actually never knew
she had a survey
in the beginning.
I had gotten my own survey.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
I don't care. You wanna tell me
about the trees now?
>> Yeah, I don't --
>> Judge Judy: You wanna tell me
about the trees?
>> Yes, ma'am.
Um, I have trees on
the other side of my property.
And when I was trying
to build my fence,
that's when the issue
became over my property line.
I already have, um,
evidence here.
I spoke with the HOA
and got approval for this fence,
um, before I even
purchased my house.
>> Judge Judy: Just a second.
I'm not concerned about
the fence anymore.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: Now we're talking
about your tree.
>> Okay, well, where the trees
were at is where I tried
to originally build my fence.
The -- the plaintiff was
with my neighbor
and telling my neighbors
that those trees,
per her survey,
were not on my actual
property line, that they were
the neighbor's property.
>> Judge Judy: That they were
on whose property?
>> My neighbor's property.
>> Judge Judy: Somebody
else's property.
>> Correct.
>> Judge Judy: Not hers.
>> Correct.
So she was informing them
that they weren't.
So um --
>> Judge Judy: That they were
not your trees to take down.
>> Correct. Correct.
>> Judge Judy: They belong
to some other neighbor --
>> They were
the neighbor's trees.
Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Based upon
her survey.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: And?
>> And, as I was trying
to remove the trees,
the plaintiff and the neighbors
got in the middle
of where the tree company
was there trying
to remove the trees.
>> Judge Judy: And?
>> And they could not
remove all the trees.
They stood
in the way of their work.
>> Judge Judy: Okay,
because according to her survey,
those trees were on
a neighbor's property line.
>> Yeah, but it was incorrect.
They were not, per the survey.
>> Judge Judy: Just... Yes.
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
Anything else?
>> I do have video showing
where they were trying to get
in the way of --
>> Judge Judy: I don't care.
>> The fence and everything
being built.
>> Judge Judy: I don't care.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: My sense is that
these people
are not erratic nuts,
that there was
a legitimate belief
that those are not your trees
to cut down.
And I assume that you
eventually cut down the trees?
>> Most of them.
There's still half there.
I couldn't finish the work.
I paid a tree company.
>> Judge Judy: So that you did
not cut down the trees --
>> Only half of them.
>> Judge Judy:
That are contested.
Is that correct?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: You did not cut
down the trees
that are contested.
Is that correct?
>> Yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, great.
All right.
I don't see any major damage
there actually
as a result of any fence.
I can't tell whether
that was done before,
after, whether it was cut.
I don't see any major damage.
And certainly the fence
is certainly upright.
And you have no case
on a counterclaim.
We're done.
If you can't live together,
in these terrible times,
if this is what is occupying
your time,
a foot, a tree,
a half a foot, a foot post,
then I think that you probably
both need to be
on some serious medication.
Bye.
[ Laughter ]
>> Byrd: Parties are excused.
You may step out.
>> If she would've just came
to us and spoke to us first
without doin' it vindictively
behind our back --
>> They harassed me
for a really long time.
I finally built my fence
between us.
>> It probably would've been
solved outside of court.
>> I don't have to see them,
like she said.
I have neighbors
on the other side.
>> Oh, the neighbors are --
were all on our side.
>> They're -- welcome me
there, so --
>> I kinda feel bad
because they all kinda
took our side and --
>> Know your rights.
And when you're dealing
with crazy people,
just don't stop.
>> She's kind of out
in the cold there.
But wrong is wrong.
>> Yeah.
Stick up for your rights.