Louisiana neighbors' fight over 70-foot strip ends with $15K, dead cow stunt

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.