Not really. The tree in question is in the middle of his backyard and the way my backyard is setup I don’t spend any time near that fence line. Even then I don’t think I would pay any attention to his trees.
In fairness I don’t pay much attention to my neighbors trees so no I can’t say I noticed it till it was down. However, I can tell you I think I would have noticed a tree branch that rotten in MY trees.
All I have is the statement from the guys he paid to remove the tree that it was rotten and pictures of the same. I do not have any pictures of the tree prior to the branch coming off so I would just be my word against his.
Does the outcome depend solely on the knowledge of the rotten limb...
We contacted our insurance and our deductible would be way more then the repairs so there was no reason for a claim.
Actually 2 branched fell from his tree and hit our fence - one on the day of the storm and the other 3 days later. The big one that causes the most damage was removed by tree...
During a storm 2 weeks ago my neighbors tree branch fell on my fence damaging it in several place (as well as his). The tree branch that fell off the tree was rotten. We don’t really get along with this neighbor but he came over and was being very nice and it seemed like he was going to take...