MIAMI COUNTY, IN — A legal battle over an overgrown bush took place at the Indiana Supreme Court today.

A car accident that happened in a rural Indiana intersection; potentially due to an overgrown bush has reached the state’s highest court, pitting a private property owner against a seriously injured driver.

The Indiana Supreme Court is now weighing a critical question with statewide implications: When vegetation on private land blocks the view at an intersection, who is legally responsible for the consequences—the landowner or the county?

The case stems from a collision at a four-way intersection in Miami County, where driver Yerano Martinez claims his view of a stop sign was completely obscured by a large bush on Jeffrey Smith’s property. The resulting crash led Martinez to sue Smith

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