A dead pine tree over 50 feet tall leaning over a Mississippi home is going to be removed by the City of Ridgeland after the tree’s owner refused to act on it for five months. The dead pine is cracked at its base on one neighbor’s property. It rests on the branches of an oak tree over the next neighbor’s roof. And it’s become everyone else’s problem since.
The homeowner who lives under the leaning tree, Bankeni Monzilli Tillman, has been worrying about it since January, when the cracked pine first came to her attention. She’s a retired veteran and federal employee whose house is on Lincolnshire Boulevard in Ridgeland. The pine itself is rooted on the adjoining property owned by Carol Thompson.
Thompson hasn’t responded to Tillman’s direct requests to take the tree down, according to Tillman’s account to WLBT 3. The City of Ridgeland sent its own notices to Thompson about the dead tree and related code violations in January and February. The city did not get a response either…