That is called fence viewing.

It now no longer stands up in court.

If your neighbour tells you to eff off you suck it up and do the fence repair.

If you take him to court after the fence viewing and the addition to his taxes - he wins - many, many examples of that in our area.

Wife has been on the fence viewing board for years - but the lawyers and doctors and teachers and veggies and lefties are moving in from the big city and using the courts to eff our system badly.

Right now we have a small piece of property a couple miles away - there is a real big lefty/veggie/wealthy spoiled lady who owns the house next door to our property. The house is for sale.

I have a huge pile of manure near by - I turn it on a regular basis to keep the smell up. The veggie that lives there has not been able to sell.

Call it my revenge for things done to us

Fortunately it is far from the home place - but I still enjoy winning this one - gives me great pleasure to get some back.

She took me to court some years ago - declaring my cows smelled and had flies!! LOL

She wanted the county to force me to provide a 15 metre set back from the fence line to reduce her annoyance factor. In essence a fence 15 metres inside from my original fence. The judge almost went with it - idiot city slicking piece of crap judges seem to be everywhere nowadays - but we squeaked by.

Ever since, that place has become my manure storage farm. And best of all I am up wind of her!! LOLOL I put that pile right in the middle of the property - well back of that 15 bmetre set back she wanted.

If the price drops I will buy the house for my daughter. If it sells to someone else, we will make ammends with the new owners and see if we can finally make peace.

Sorry - got side tracked - as to the original question - no matter what - if you got a boundary fence problem - suck it up buttercup and go fix it - it is not worth the trouble.

BC