{"id":2729,"date":"2017-10-17T11:12:24","date_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2729"},"modified":"2017-10-17T11:12:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-17T16:12:24","slug":"this-forest-hill-couple-sued-their-neighbours-for-2-5-million-over-a-house-they-claim-was-renovated-to-look-like-theirs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2729","title":{"rendered":"This Forest Hill couple sued their neighbours for $2.5 million over a house they claim was renovated to look like theirs"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jason and Jodi Chapnik, who own the home on Strathearn Rd., near Bathurst and Eglinton Sts., alleged that a house on nearby Vesta Dr. was newly renovated to look \u201cstrikingly similar\u201d to theirs \u2014 including using the same shade of blue and matching grey stonework.<\/p>\n<p>The Chapniks filed a lawsuit against neighbour Barbara Ann Kirshenblatt, her builder husband and architect brother-in-law for copyright infringement in federal court, as well as the real estate agent who profited from the house\u2019s recent sale and the anonymous contractors who worked on the house.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/2017\/10\/05\/forest-hill-homeowners-claim-neighbours-duplicated-their-house-design.html\">This Forest Hill couple sued their neighbours for $2.5 million over a house they claim was renovated to look like theirs | Toronto Star<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jason and Jodi Chapnik, who own the home on Strathearn Rd., near Bathurst and Eglinton Sts., alleged that a house on nearby Vesta Dr. was newly renovated to look \u201cstrikingly similar\u201d to theirs \u2014 including using the same shade of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/?p=2729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2730,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2729\/revisions\/2730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brandylion.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}