Raleigh News and Observer
Time for filing reply to the answer of W.B. Cole, Rockingham capitalist and slayer of W.W. Ormond, has been extended until February. The statutory time for filing expires on January 15th, but this time was extended yesterday for 20 days by agreement of counsel for both sides.
Answer was filed recently in Wake Superior Court by lawyers for Cole, and new allegations were made that attorneys for the Rev. Mr. Ormond will make reply to. The pleadings in the action for $150,000 alleged damages promise to become bulky before the case finally comes to trial.
No motion for the removal of the case is expected to be made by lawyers for the defendant. If such a motion was lodged, attorneys for the Rev. Mr. Ormond would ask that it be either to Granville or Nash counties, it is declared, and the latter would be the most logical place under the law, as Ormond while living in Richmond at the time of his death could also have claimed Nash County as his home as his father lived there. The suit would naturally be brought in the county in which the deceased was a resident, it is pointed out, an there is no valid legal reason for transferring it to the home county of the defendant.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Jan. 13, 1926
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