text: Car wash king Anthony Sahade, neighbours fail in appeals over $500 damages award
  Updated January 3, 2016 — 2.13pm first published at 12.33pm
  A neighbourhood row on Australia's most expensive street has stretched over five years, involved a wooden staircase, an "unedifying brawl", and complaints about loud music and dangerous driving.
  And now, the dispute between Crystal Car Wash owner Anthony Sahade​ and his Point Piper neighbours Eckart​ and Celia Bischoff​ includes an argument in the state's highest court.over $500.
  Anthony Sahade, centre, outside court in 2013. Credit:Nick Moir
  A physical fight between Mr Sahade​, his carpenter Adam Paul Smith and Mr Bischoff​ erupted on the battleaxe block on Wolseley Road on the afternoon of May 21, 2012.
  Tensions had erupted during the court-ordered demolition of a staircase on Mr Sahade's house, which was built without approval.
  CCTV footage of the fight captured Mr Sahade telling Mr Bischoff: "You're a goner" and "I swear I'll f---ing deck you," various courts heard.
  Assault charges against Mr Sahade and Mr Smith were later dismissed, and the pair began civil proceedings against the Bischoffs for malicious prosecution.
  Mr Sahade also pursued Mr Bischoff for damages, alleging he had been assaulted five times during the fight.
  At the same time, the Bischoffs​ brought a cross-claim seeking damages for Mr Sahade trespassing on their property.
  NSW District Court Judge Raymond McLoughlin​ dismissed the claims in October 2014, but later awarded $500 damages plus costs to the Bischoffs on the trespass claim.
  Judge McLoughlin rejected Mr Sahade and Mr Smith's claims the Bischoffs had given "false and misleading" statements to pursue prosecution, and ruled Mr Bischoff had acted in self-defence.
  He gave minimal damages to the Bischoffs, finding Mr Sahade had entered their property for a very short time.
  In August last year, all parties appealed against the decision, and the Bischoffs argued $100,000 in damages should replace the $500 awarded to them.
  They claimed they were "seriously shocked, injured in their feelings and person, and humiliated by the trespass" and that they "remain in fear of further personal violence and intrusions upon their home by Mr Sahade".
  But late last month the Court of Appeal dismissed the parties' appeals, ruling they all failed to prove the trial judge had been in error.
  It is the latest in a string of legal battles between the neighbours.
  In March 2014, the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal ordered Mr Sahade and his son Victor not to "threaten or act in an aggressive manner" towards the Bischoffs and another neighbour on the three-strata block.
  The Sahades were also ordered not to play loud music.
  Senior member Richard Buckley said that, since May 2005, Mr Sahade's conduct had been "characterised by a lack of civility, arrogance, threatening behaviour, a disdain for the rights of other lot owners and a disregard for the obligations imposed" by strata laws.