242 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [P. D. No. 4. 



Question. If a tree warden should remove a tree, has he 

 the right to sell that wood, or does it belong to the abutter? 



Mr. Dickinson. To the abutter. 



Mr. Reed. I would like to ask regarding the rights of a 

 man driving a herd of cattle, meeting an electric car. 



Mr. Dickinson. It would take more of an expert than I 

 am to answer that. I should think it would be the dut}^ of 

 the motorman to stop his car until the herd got by. I 

 should say that was the only rule of safety. Driving cattle 

 in the streets is perfectly legitimate. They cannot be con- 

 trolled as horses can, and I think the motorman ought to 

 stop and let them go by. 



Mr. Harrison. In regard to electric roads, they have no 

 right, as I understand it, to pass feed wires in through the 

 branches of trees, unless insulated. There is a long avenue 

 of maples past my place, and every once in a while a live 

 wire gives out electricity and biu-ns the tree. They some- 

 times have girdled a tree with wire. 



Mr. Dickinson. That is a case where a man has a right 

 to stop a nuisance. Companies frequently disfigure trees 

 by lopping off branches unnecessarily. 



Mr. Harrison. Is there compensation for that? 



Mr. Dickinson. If they interfere unnecessarily with the 

 tree so as to cause its destruction, I think the abutter might 

 claim and receive compensation. 



