After an 18-year legal battle that pitted neighbor against neighbor, this house at 74 Rubier Road in Marbelhead was razed today. The neighbors said the house, valued at $1 million, reduced their access to light, views and air.
(Jerry Wishnow for the Boston Globe)
Crashing end to a long standoff
After an 18-year legal battle that pitted neighbor against neighbor, this house at 74 Rubier Road in Marbelhead was razed today. The neighbors said the house, valued at $1 million, reduced their access to light, views and air.
(Jerry Wishnow for the Boston Globe)
In the end, the giant claw of an oversize backhoe needed only hours to do what 18 years of litigation, hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees, and a bottomless well of angst and acrimony had been unable to accomplish before yesterday. Beginning about 7:15 a.m., by court order, Wayne Johnson’s 5,000-square-foot, million-dollar house overlooking Marblehead Harbor finally came tumbling down. Johnson, a financial adviser in his 70s, is moving to a rental apartment in Salem.
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