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Lawyer and part-time cattle farmer John F. Ames got off on the wrong foot with his new neighbors in the 1980s when he invoked a 17th-century law to compel them to pay for part of the fence around his 675-acre estate...

Another neighbor, Oliver Perry Brooks, was less accommodating. He never paid, despite a 1991 state Supreme Court ruling siding with Mr. Ames. He also periodically cut or removed portions of the fence, fueling a bitter feud that ended with Mr. Ames' arrest in the April shooting death of Mr. Brooks, 74.

What's John Ames FReeper screen name?

6 posted on 06/28/2004 9:18:13 AM PDT by Poohbah ("Mister Gorbachev, TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!" -- President Ronald Reagan, Berlin, 1987)

15 posted on 06/28/2004 9:26:33 AM PDT by wardaddy (It may take at least 1,000,000 deaths on US soil to bring America to a true war footing....sadly.)