ohio utility right of way tree cutting?

our local electric cooperative came out and talked to my mom about trimming some of our very nice large pine trees that her and my dad planted some 26 years ago. they told her they would have to trim the top out of two of them and they would cut down a poplar tree that was dead. the electric company employee marked the trees for cutting and trimming with diffrent marks and diffrent colored paint and left saying that the contractors would be buy in a couple days to do the work.

the contractors came Asplunda (big orange trucks you see everywhere) and cut a tree that was not marked in order to cut the poplar tree down. which they could have accessed easily from the other side of the tree but not from the road using the bucket truck.

I called the electric company and told them my displesure with what they did and that we had not talked what so ever about cutting this tree (which was still small enough that it could have been transplanted with some work). I told him I wanted them to come out and set a leader branch on the tree so it did not grow a big top hat the guy said he would and that the crew that came out was a line cutting crew who normally only cuts brush etc away from the lines and they messed up.

do i have any legal case aginst them? the tree was in the right of way but aren't they suposed to make a reasonable attempt to notify us of any and all alterations they are going to make in a reasonable amount of time before they do it? thanks!