When the statutory remedy is chosen, common-law remedies and damages are preempted.2 The common-law measurement of damage is the difference between the value of the real estate before and after the trespass.3. There are four statutes. ....Gostina v Ryland, 199 P. 298 (Wash. 1921): "One adjoining owner cannot maintain an action against another for the intrusion of roots or branches of a tree which is not poisonous or noxious in its nature. His remedy in such cases is to ...
