I've dealt with it here but for different reason. Our land has them all the way around plus all over the property. If you attempt to sell any of them often you end up in court about removing antiquities.... They are passing more and more laws to protect them as a lot of fireplace builders buy them up, or worst yet, steal the nice cap stones...Thats where most of ours went along the road.
People get them for mantles or harths or even stairs.. Try walking on them in the winter with ice frozen on them.... Tricky at best...
This is at the other end of the state in Wesport, where money is no object for most...
Somebody's Watching...and Ready to Sue
by Paul Sullivan
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
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Albert Hancock is embroiled in a lawsuit over a stone wall which extends onto town property in Westport, Conn.
Fences are supposed to make good neighbors. But that wasn't the case with a stone wall in Westport, Conn., which pitted neighbor against neighbor and has cost its owner $150,000 in legal fees -- so far.
The story of the stone wall began in 2005 when Albert and Susan Hancock built it around their modest 1920s home in this affluent coastal town. While the wall was being built, one of the Hancocks' neighbors filed a complaint with the town. The town sent out inspectors but did not stop construction, though it later filed its own complaints against the Hancocks. Then, last year, the Hancocks' neighbor filed a separate suit claiming that because the wall runs along a private lane, all the homeowners on the road are liable.
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People get them for mantles or harths or even stairs.. Try walking on them in the winter with ice frozen on them.... Tricky at best...
This is at the other end of the state in Wesport, where money is no object for most...
Somebody's Watching...and Ready to Sue
by Paul Sullivan
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
provided by
The New York Times
NYT090809.jpg
Wendy Carlson for The New York Times
Albert Hancock is embroiled in a lawsuit over a stone wall which extends onto town property in Westport, Conn.
Fences are supposed to make good neighbors. But that wasn't the case with a stone wall in Westport, Conn., which pitted neighbor against neighbor and has cost its owner $150,000 in legal fees -- so far.
The story of the stone wall began in 2005 when Albert and Susan Hancock built it around their modest 1920s home in this affluent coastal town. While the wall was being built, one of the Hancocks' neighbors filed a complaint with the town. The town sent out inspectors but did not stop construction, though it later filed its own complaints against the Hancocks. Then, last year, the Hancocks' neighbor filed a separate suit claiming that because the wall runs along a private lane, all the homeowners on the road are liable.
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