A Neighbor From Hell

Rochester, N.Y. - 13WHAM News is taking a closer look at a neighborhood feud making its way all the way to the Supreme Court. Two neighbors at Lancraft Street and Culver Road have been battling for years over a single backyard fence. The dispute is over 22 inches of property. The fence is six feet. It may as well be the towering edifices of the Berlin Wall. Boundary disputes, unkempt lawns and noise nuisances can drive even the most sane person to a breaking point. Karen Stuck and Tracy Hickmott are both getting close. "She said, 'Get off of my property! Go back to the country where you came from!'", Stuck told 13WHAM News. "What's right is right," Hickmott said. "You can't just come over here and damage somebody's property." Hickmott, who can't stand the fence, has lived in the neighborhood for more than ten years. But a few years ago, she said the Stucks moved in next door to her property and wanted to build a fence. "What they neglected to tell me was the location of where they were going to put up the fence," Hickmott said. Stuck acknowledges that she and her husband put the fence up on part of Hickmott's driveway. But she countered that the driveway itself spills over onto Stuck's property. For 60 years, it wasn't a problem. Now, Hickmott said, it is a problem. "They're alleging that they own 22 inches of the asphalt driveway," Hickmott said. Stuck disagrees. "The lawyers say we owned