Something similar happened here a few years back. a crew started clearing land, cutting down trees and the like on the wrong lot, that had a house.
When confronted with the right address, they vamoosed..............
I had that at my place. Someone was building a house next to my property and they didn’t have a clue where the real property lines were.
They managed to get the house on their lot, but they instructed the power company to go an angle across my land to hook up power.
That was a bad plan because...
The property is wooded and they cut several trees.
The state of MI has a ‘treble- damages’ law for unauthorized tree cutting.
The owner of the property gets to set the value of the trees and the judge makes it 3X.
You would be surprised at the value of a few scrub trees in a fencerow, thousands!