Referring to an obsessive shed, a protruding harbor and sprinkler damage, the meridian church has taken court action against a longtime neighbor.
In a court case brought to the Ada District Court at the end of April, the Meridian Missionary Baptist Church accused Alicia D. Williams of damage over $ 1,000, according to court records received from Idaho’s holding.
The claim was filed according to Idaho Code 6-202, which relates to civil violation.
The Meridian missionary Baptist seeking a lawsuit sits at the corner of Meridian Road and Avenue East Carlton in a mixed residential area near the center of Meridian. The defendant’s house, which Williams says she has occupied for 19 years with her husband, borders the church to the east.
The church claims that it has proceeded to the case after talking to “repeatedly” with Williams and another resident of the home, and later sends letters on April 29, 2024 and September 16, 2024. These letters, according to the court case, have not been unsure of the defendant.
In official documents in accordance with the case, Williams denied the allegations and requested that the case be dismissed.
“We have a letter a few years ago, asking if they can buy the house because they want to make a bigger parking lot,” Williams told state adversity. “We did not sell and then in the last few years they started with these few letters for complaints.”
A big problem in this case will include a fence ownership. According to court case, Williams erected a shed against the fence of the church. The roof of the shed sits on the fence, causing damage and protruding on church property, the suit claims.
“This fence is legally ours. We are legally allowed to build everything we want against our own fence,” said Alicia Williams. “And if it’s a little and it needs some repair, it’s also on us, but it has nothing to do with them.”
The defendant is also charged with the construction of RV Carport, which fits into church property, and thus killed Arborvitae, which are planted along the fence line.
Alicia and her husband, John Timothy Williams II, say the carriage was allowed and legal and said the church was actually responsible for damaging the trees.
“What is amazing about this is that we watched them cut these trees,” Alicia said. “We didn’t.”
The trial also claims that Williams has broken up and broke the heads of the church of the church.
John Williams told the statesman that he had accidentally passed over one of the church’s sprinklers and then offered to correct it, but was told he did not need it.
The church wants reimbursement for suspected damages and the costs associated with investigating the violation, damages to prevent future harm and costs for attorneys’ fees.
“The defendant’s actions here represent significant intervention in the real estate of the church and the plaintiff and were deliberate and unreasonable in nature,” the judicial process said. “The defendant’s actions here are an interference with the plaintiff’s free use of the plaintiff so that he can interfere with his convenient pleasure of his real estate.”
The Meridian Missionary Baptist Church has hired Eagle K. Williams lawyer, while the defendant chose to present herself, according to court records.
A church representative told the State that he would not comment on ongoing litigation, but later proposed to submit a written statement that the statesman had not received.
Reporter Rose Evans contributed to this story.