Neighbor in 17-year feud could end up back in court
Pontiac A West Bloomfield Township man who faced possible jail time for annoying his neighbor with a lawnmower horn serenade may be headed back to court.
James Cantini, 76, was cited about a year ago for disturbing the peace and put on probation with orders to not contact his neighbor, Michael Doyle, for a year after blaring out La Cucaracha on the musical horn of his riding lawnmower between their Elder Road homes. It was the latest in a 17-year exchange of salvos over property line and privacy disputes between the pair.
In a rare act of cooperation, township attorney Larry Sherman and Cantinis lawyer, Todd Kaluzny, worked out an agreement signed by the two neighbors to end the feud and Sherman agreed to dismiss the criminal warrant.
But when Bloomfield 48th District Judge Diane DAgostini learned of possible no-contact violations to conditions she had put on Cantini, she felt her authority was being usurped and ordered him back to court.
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