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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a tough one.  Obviously trespassing onto your land and cutting your tree is totally unacceptable, and you would be well within your rights to take them to court. On the other hand, you probably won’t recover much in damages—it seems to me vanishingly unlikely a court would make them pay to replace the damaged trees with new mature ones—and you do have to live with them going forward.  Probably the mature thing to do is swallow hard and let it go, despite how badly that sucks.  Sunk cost now, and the more you think about it, the more it’s going to bother you, which just makes your life worse and does nothing to them.[/quote]

OP here - I appreciate your thoughtful comments.  I think you're right.  This is definitely NOT how I wanted my first introduction to our new neighbor to go.  I don't see us being "friendly" in the future, unfortunately.  I spent today researching privacy screens and decided to have some Nellie Stevens holly bushes planted in this area, underneath the existing (and butchered) pine trees.  I don't think it would be worth suing them over this, but it would certainly be nice if he offered to pay half of what I'll wind up paying for the privacy screening.  Not going to ask him to, but that would be a "neighborly" thing to do.[/quote]

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