A fellow that worked for me lived in-town out east of Cleveland. Our power company out there was the one that triggered the big blackout on August 14, 2003, so they suddenly got real religious about cleanin' up their rights-of-way and easements.
They came through his place the next spring and butchered a line of ornamental trees (read "small" -- they'd never grow big enough to bother the lines, and they certainly didn't when this crew came through). Contractors, they were, and seemed to want to cut anything within the easement, whether it needed it or not. Just butchered 'em. If the trees had eight layers of branches, they just took a chain saw and cut the top four or five right off, straight across the trunk.
They messed with the wrong guy. When it was all done, the contractors came back and dug out the trees they whapped and put in a new line of trees. His had grown to bigger than you can buy, but he didn't settle for young trees. They had to pay for the biggest ones they could find, that would still take five years or mor to grow to the size of the ones they hacked up.
So they did that and left. He fought some more, and they ended up payin' yet another contractor to come back and fix the nasty ruts (I saw 'em, they were ugly) they made thorugh is yard with the equipment and trucks they ran in to replace the trees.
Dunno if he had a law on his side workin' in his favor or not. It may just have been his persistence that got him the satisfaction.
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