Each year, many Quebecers hang out their neighbors in court due to conflicts of all kinds. If all seem to experience a hell in these situations, some are themselves condemned because of their intolerance or their insensitivity. Here are some of the most glaring cases heard this year in court.
Intolerant with meat smokings and bee hives
Wherever she passes, a Gatineoise goes as a crusade against her neighbors for trifles and boges them in legal sagas.
In 2018, Rosa Callalli tried to continue, on behalf of her young children, his neighbor, because … he used a meat smoker a few times, which would have caused sleep problems and asthma to the little ones. Mme Callalli had filed complaints to the police, in the town planning service and even in the Senate.
According to her, the situation was such that she had to sell her property and change neighborhood.
Rosa Callalli quickly reproached her new neighbors for having a hive, however legal, and even installed traps to protect herself from bees.
Véronique Tessier and Alexandre Pelletier had a legal hive on their land.
Photo filed at the Court
She then was relentless on the production of maple syrup by Véronique Tessier and Alexandre Pelletier because of her “foul odor”.
Rosa Callalli and her spouse “traumatize the neighborhood”, replied their neighbors to the court. And a judge agreed: he ordered them to pay $ 3,000 to Mme Tessier and M. Pelletier for having “made their life miserable”.
Incessant
A Sherbrookoise who let her two dogs report day and night will have to pay $ 6,000 to her neighbor for whom life has turned “into hell”.
Since 2021, Rosaire Arguin has been “at the end of the roll”. He no longer feels at home, neglects his land and even his own person.
In question: the barking, day and night, of the two dogs of her new neighbor, Alice Dymburt. And Mr. Arguin, who is afraid of these pets, even hears them inside his house with the closed windows.
Other neighbors, who considered the dogs of Mme Aggressive Dymburt, had called the spa because they had escaped or because they were constantly swapping.
Alice Dymburt’s dogs had ended up on her neighbor’s field, Rosaire Arguin
Screenshot of a video deposited at the Court
These calls have borne fruit: Alice Dymburt was also sentenced to municipal fines of nearly $ 3,500 in connection with the behavior of her dogs since 2022.
A hedge at $ 140,000
A Lavallois must pay his neighbor nearly $ 140,000 for having done “justice himself” by carrying out the “unjustified massacre” of an imposing hedge that did not belong to him.
When Eli El-Chakieh had several hedge trunks and branches cut separating his land and that of Manon Dumais, in a opulent neighborhood in Laval-sur-le-Lac, he knew that the 60 cedars did not belong to him.
According to Mr. El-Chakieh, the cup was required to allow access to machinery for work on its septic tank. But he did not have trees cut on his land which, themselves, hampered the passage more.
A judge said he was “convinced of the malicious behavior and recklessness” of the retired engineer.
The cedar hedge has been described as “total loss” by experts. And it will cost its owner about $ 84,000 to replace it.
Eli El-Chakieh was ordered to reimburse this amount to his neighbor, in addition to $ 13,500 in damages and various costs of experts and lawyers.
Everything to scare away children
A couple from Lac-Beauport continued their neighbor because their children made too much noise. But it was finally he who will have to pay him $ 15,000, after annoying him so much that she moved.
France Doré wanted its neighborhood to be reserved for 50 years and over. She even cried when she learned that she would have a family like neighbors.
She started to hear “untimely, unpredictable noise” as soon as Marie Chouinard arrives and her children aged 6, 8 and 11 in their new town house.
Mme Doré then began to constantly monitor his little neighbors and to file complaints to the co -ownership union against them: because they sat in the common marches, because they were walking in the lawn or even because they played outside. None of them resulted.
The 59 -year -old woman finally signed, in 2023, a commitment not to disturb the peace, after being accused of criminal harassment.
But it was already too much for Marie Chouinard: she reluctantly decided to sell her residence, even before she found a new one.
Have a sight cut
Two Americans who fell in love with Quebec bought a condo with a view of the river. But they lost it when their neighbor built a very high building, despite the orders of the courtyard.
Barbara Fulgentiz and José Luis Cruz Orozco bought in 2020 a small pied-à-terre to spend more time in the Capitale-Nationale. The main attraction of their apartment was the two large windows which offered a breathtaking panorama.
Seeing that the neighboring building was going to be destroyed, the couple of the New Jersey addressed the court to force the entrepreneur not to spoil their sight and thus build a building of a maximum of three floors.
But just a few weeks after being successful, the couple realized that the construction already exceeded the authorized height. And General Entrepreneur Gparadis no longer responded to their lawyers.
The building built by Gparadis (on the left) is now more than three floors, despite an order from the courtyard.
Marc Vallières
“Reality is that [GParadis] arose from building as if the order made by the judge […] did not exist ”recently underlined another magistrate by condemning the company for outrage in court. Its sentence is not yet known.