Greensboro, Jan. 4—A.L. Brooks will be one of the attorneys defending the suit in wake Superior Court brought by Rev. A.L. Ormond against W.B. Cole, Rockingham textile magnate, the suit the result of Ormond’s son, W.W. Ormond, having been shot on August 15 in Rockingham by Cole.
Mr. Brooks is just back from a trip to Raleigh, where he assisted in preparation of the answer to the complaint in the Ormond suit. It is understood that the defense will stress that Cole was acquitted of the slaying, in Richmond Superior Court; that his act was justified in the light of the evidence, and that the acquittal was secured in another county than the one in which the plaintiff resides. The suit was brought in Wake County, but it is the opinion of many persons that it will not be tried for some time.
As to an allegation in the complaint that the father was deprived of possible financial support by the killing of the son, the defense will say that at the time of his death Ormond was drawing a government pension and not likely to ever support his father.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, Jan. 5, 1926
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