Neighbors feud over horse carcass

LEROY TOWNSHIP (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - One neighbor is unhappy with what another has just left across their property lines.

The concern is over a dead horse.

The property lines cross on the 6500 block of 1 1/2 Mile Road in Leroy Township. Both neighbors admit they didn't get along before this, but now things have gotten even worse.

Nell Green couldn't believe what she saw just yards from her driveway. Her neighbors horse lying dead, hooves in the air, rotting in its pasture.

"Yuck. It's disgusting. It's full of flies, it stinks. I mean you can't sit outside lately, the flies are so bad," said Green.

She's been dealing with the gruesome scene since Sunday when another neighbor noticed the horse died. For two days it has sat in the field.

"I want it gone right now. It needs to be gone. Somebody's got to do something with it. It's gotta get out of here," said Green.

That may not happen anytime soon. The horse's owner, Wade Walton says after years of harassment from neighbors, he's had enough.

"The maggots will have it gone in three days. That's mean to say, but I tried to take care of it right," said Walton.

Walton says a neighbor volunteered his backhoe to help bury the horse Monday night, but when the Greens started taking pictures, he took his tractor and went home, refusing to get involved.

"They put a stop to it, so now they have to deal with the stink, because I tried to do do what was right, they went and put a stop to it, that's the end of it," said Walton.

Walton believes it was the Greens who shot the horse, killing it.

That is something Green denies, saying her family was out of town last weekend.

Green calls her neighbors decision to leave the horse to rot unbelievable.

"That's just ridiculous. That's childish. You're talking about an animal lying here getting eaten alive... Well, not alive," said Green.

The Greens admit they were taking pictures when Walton came with a backhoe, but deny harassing anyone.