What repair is appropriate

[kaervin]

This is for the State of Maryland

I had a contractor who placed a drainage pipe for our sump pump and accidentally ran it about 18 inched into my neighbor's property. As soon as I was aware of the issue I contacted the contractor and had the pipe rerouted on my property and had him reseed the damaged area on my neighbor's property. On the day all of this work was completed, I recieved a letter from my neighbor requesting I move the drain and repair the area with sod.

I understand that I need to make my neighbor's property whole but can he require me to sod the damage rather than reseed?

[elklaw]

This happened to me, something like it. The area was reseeded and not resoded. I think reseeding should be more than adequate to make the neighbor whole. The neighbor can get picky if he wishes and take it to court, but since reseeding will take a little time to be back to normal and resodding is more aesthetically pleasing, it is just a matter of degree of aesthetics. In some areas, that is a big deal, but you have made him whole. And to be honest, I am not sure of how you determine any measure of damages for something like this because you did reseed and it will grow and the neighbor just wants something different.