Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language (Revised for Fall '24)

Resource 2 . 4 . 1 . 2

4 minutes

Longenecker v. Zimmerman ("The Tree Surgery Case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

Can a defendant defend against a trespass claim by arguing that no damage was done to the plaintiff's property? Or, how is trespass like battery in being a "touching" of land?

Kansas Supreme Court

175 Kan. 719, 267 P.2d 543

No. 39,030

1954-03-06

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