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DALLAS (AP) -- The
first witness in a lawsuit Wednesday between two neighbors was Buddy the
donkey, who walked to the bench and stared at the jury, the picture of a
gentle, well-mannered creature and not the loud, aggressive animal he had
been accused of being.
The donkey was at the center of a dispute between oilman
John Cantrell and attorney Gregory Shamoun that
began after Cantrell complained about a storage shed Shamoun
was building in his backyard in Dallas.
He said Shamoun retaliated by
bringing Buddy from his ranch in Midlothian
and putting him in the backyard.
Cantrell complained of donkey noise and manure piles.
"They bray a lot any time day or night. You never
know when they're going to cut loose," he testified.
Shamoun said Buddy was there to
serve as a surrogate mother for a calf named Lucy that needed to be
bottle-fed.
Neither jurors nor Buddy had the last say.The
neighbors settled their dispute while jurors deliberated.
Shamoun agreed to buy some of Cantrell's land
and Cantrell agreed to withdraw his complaint with the city.
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