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Judge Denies Ballard’s Request
By Debbie Williams Reporter
Published: Thu, September 13, 2007 - 5:30 pm
Last Updated: Thu, September 13, 2007 - 6:33 pm
Last Updated: Thu, September 13, 2007 - 6:33 pm
Debbie Williams
Isabelle Moseley knows there are some things you can cut and it will always grow back. "I thought it was a terrible thing."
But some things will never grow back like Phyllis Greggs two large liveoaks that used to stand on her property along U.S. Highway 31. "I drove by and noticed something was different. My trees were gone turned around came back and they were gone."
Gregg says Lamar Advertising cut down the trees making way for a new billboard. "They admitted they made a mistake," she says.
The largest of the two trees cut down was 11 feet around and 43 inches at it's widest point, the kind of tree Gregg says you can't replace.
"You can't grow it back and I don't think you could replace it you couldn't dig it up and replace the stump with a tree," says Gregg.
News Five tried to contact Lamar Advertising's General Manager, Troy Tatum. We were told he is out of town and is the only one who could talk to the media.
Meanwhile, Gregg says she wants to be compensated for damages and she wants something else. "That they don't do it to somebody else they trespassed on the property and they took the two trees out damaged my property and done it without even asking."
In published reports, Troy Tatum with Lamar Advertising, says his company did have permission to cut the trees but that permission came from someone who didn't own the property.
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I WAS IN ENVIROMENTAL COURT WHEN THE JUDGE ORDERED A MAN IN MOBILE TO PAY $45,000 FOR DOING THE SAME THING. I BET HE WILL NEVER BUMP INTO A OAK TREE AGAIN MUCH LESS CUT ONE DOWN.