From Richmond’s WRIC.com of June 23, 2006
Judge OKs settlements in fence-feud slaying
A Caroline County judge has approved settlements in the case of a lawyer and cattle farmer who killed his neighbor.
Under the settlement neither Evelyn Brooks nor John Ames admits fault or pays money. Ames was acquitted in September of shooting Brooks' husband, Perry Brooks.
The two sides had filed competing claims.
Sixty-one-year-old Ames contends he shot Brooks in self-defense in April 2004 as the 74-year-old man came at him with a 3-foot stick. Brooks was on Ames' property to retrieve his bull, which often wandered onto Ames' property and mingled with his prized Black Angus beef cattle.
The two men had been embroiled in a 15-year feud that began over a fence Ames built between their properties.
The settlement agreed to Friday included a 10 (m) million dollar wrongful death claim filed by Brooks and her two daughters against Ames.
Ames had filed a one-point-three (M) million dollar suit against the widow, claiming she conspired with her husband to retrieve the bull.
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