Forum Newsfront

March, 1983

Lopped-Off LimbsClayton, Missouri--A "wrongful death" suit for $350,000 has been filed against a utility company and a tree-pruning company for allegedly causing the demise of an old oak with a trunk measuring more than five feet in diameter. The suit, filed by the owners of a local apartment complex, claimed that the developers had spent $100,000 to save the tree during construction and that a local utility company had overdone it when it hired the tree pruners to chop off limbs.Parol...