Albert and Jane and Her Husband Own Homes Beside Each

Albert and Jane and her husband own homes beside each other.Jane has a swimming pool in her back yard.Between the houses,on Albert's property,there is a line of very old trees that have grown so tall that they are blocking the sunlight from the swimming pool area of Jane's property.Yesterday,Jane's husband,George,after hearing Jane complain about the blocked sunlight,without going onto Albert's property,cut 3 metres off the top of each of Albert's trees to let the sunlight into his and Jane's back yard.George's action in cutting down the trees constitutes

A) the tort of defamation.
B) the tort of assault.
C) the tort of nuisance.
D) the tort of trespass.
E) the tort of negligence.