Montgomery, AL – Alabama Power Company has no plans to stop cutting down trees around the state despite a judge's ruling this week that the utility couldn't remove trees in a Jacksonville neighborhood.
Spokeswoman Gina Warren said today the company's legal department is still reviewing the ruling from Calhoun County Circuit Judge John Thomason, but the utility believes it doesn't have to change its routine.
Thomason ruled in favor of Jacksonville homeowners Barbara and Jimmy Wilson and Rufus Kinney, who objected to the utility's plan to chop down trees in their yards.
The judge said the utility only had a right to trim the trees, not cut them down.
Barbara Wilson and Kinney chained themselves to the trees twice last year to ward off people who had come to cut them down.
That's what led Alabama Power to file the suit.
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