Trees don't kill people; improper maintenance does, says San Francisco attorney Matthew Davis. Fittingly, he was due to file his latest tree injury/death lawsuit on Friday, Arbor Day, his fifth such suit since -- ahem -- branching out into private practice. An $800,000 agreement in one case apparently caught the attention of the tree-afflicted; Davis now has more tree cases than he can handle. Call it a growth practice area -- and not one for saps.
May 02, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
If a tree falls and you’re standing under it, what kind of court case does it make? A pretty good one, attorney Matthew Davis has learned. He has filed four such suits, and he settled the first two for a total of $3.5 million.
Arbor Day — Friday — was an appropriate day to file No. 5. He’s suing the city of Pacific Grove, Calif., over a falling tree limb that killed a woman.
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