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128 Cases
128 Cases (Property · The complaint alleges that the residence has a solar) — "128 cases, as their name implies, require malice which is not claimed in this ca…
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- The majority's rationale for extending protection to a landowner's access to sunlight is unpersuasive.
- The majority concludes that this court's prior reluctance to expand protection beyond spite-fence cases rests on obsolete policies.
- The referenced 128 cases require malice, which is not claimed in this case.
- The majority identifies three policies as obsolete.
- Landowners may use their property as they desire provided they cause no physical damage to a neighbor.
- Historically, sunlight was valued for aesthetics rather than as an energy source.
- Society has a significant interest in avoiding impediments to land development.
- The dissent maintains that these policies have not become obsolete.
- A fundamental legal principle recognizes a landowner's ownership of as much airspace as can be occupied or used with the land.
- Fontainebleau Hotel Corp. v. Forty-Five Twenty-Five, Inc. is cited as frequently followed authority.
- A useful and beneficial structure does not create liability for blocking adjoining light, air, or views, even if it partly arises from spite.
- The dissent firmly supports a landowner's right to use property within established legal limits.
