>> Judge Judy: Ms. Franks,
are you and
Ms. Morris neighbors?
>> Yes, we are.
>> Judge Judy: You live
in adjacent houses?
>> We live approximately
two blocks away.
>> Judge Judy: For how long?
>> Approximately
going on four years now.
>> Judge Judy: And prior to this
incident
that involved your car
in October of last year,
did you have any other incidents
with Ms Morris?
>> Yes, I have.
>> Judge Judy: When did they
start and about what?
>> Um, approximately
October 2014.
Um, I was walking my dogs
and I passed her house
and she was approaching
in her Jeep, um, I guess,
parking in her garage,
which is in the alley access.
And she was coming,
her dog jumped out and ran at
us, me and my two Pomeranians,
and then it retreated back
to the Jeep and she backed out.
>> Judge Judy: We're not talking
about the date of the incident
that brings us here.
>> No, this is
one prior incident.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, so this
is prior.
This was a year before?
>> Yes, yes.
The dog jumped out one other
time, no attack, no nothing,
retreated back
into the automobile,
and then I turned around
and went the other way
and proceeded home.
>> Judge Judy: You had no
conversation with her?
>> No, no.
>> Judge Judy: No conversation.
>> Never seen her in person
ever.
>> Judge Judy: So, in the four
years, this incident was the
first one that you had had
before the incident that
you're complaining of today?
>> Correct. Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, go ahead.
>> And so, um, I was again,
then walking my dogs.
And as I was walking my dogs,
she was out watering
her hibiscus on her porch
and she started screaming and
yelling at me, um, obscenities,
telling me not --
not to walk by her house.
Her dogs were barking.
My dogs were barking.
I couldn't really hear
a whole lot,
so I said it was a free country,
"You never apologized
for the first incident
of your dog's jumping out,"
and I continued on.
And then on Halloween,
which was Saturday the 31st,
I was walking my dogs again,
1:00 in the afternoon.
I come around the block,
up my street,
and I could hear
as I was passing by
usually the dogs
are running back
and forth across the fence.
And this time,
I didn't hear that.
I heard the dogs confined
to her garage area.
And I continued on
and as I was coming south
down my road, going home.
She then came north in her big
Jeep with big mud tires and
veered all the way across the
street, ran up on somebody's
property, did a 180 around me.
I had my dogs.
I didn't know
if I was getting run over.
My dogs -- I was pulling them
in.
>> Judge Judy: Is what you're
telling me she was home and went
and got the dogs?
>> I believe that the dogs
were confined in the garage
and she was at home
and waiting for me.
She could probably hear me
comin' because all the dogs in
the neighborhood bark at one
another when you're walking
them.
So I think she was ready for me
to come, and at that time,
when I came around the corner
and she came with the Jeep.
She came up,
hopped these people's property,
did a 180, parked like as
if she was gonna wash her car
on their property.
And at that time, the dog had
jumped out from behind me and
I --
>> Judge Judy: What kind of dog?
>> She has, uh, cattle dogs,
Australian shepherds or um...
>> Judge Judy: How do they get
out of the car?
>> I didn't have my top
on at the time.
I took it off for the summer
and then hadn't put it on yet.
>> Judge Judy: How many
do you have?
>> I have four.
>> Judge Judy: Okay, go ahead.
>> And as she approached
the curb, I had my dogs.
I was raking them in on
their retractable leashes,
pulling them in.
And at the same time behind me,
one jumped out,
and I was watching her
come around making sure
I wasn't gonna get ran over
or my animals
weren't gonna get ran over
and she got up on that
and, at the same time,
her dog's biting my dog.
And I threw a kick out
and almost fell down,
and she's cussing
and screaming at me,
telling me not to be
walking my dogs by her place,
anything like that.
And I ran around,
and I got her license plate
from the back 'cause there
was not a front one.
I ran home, called 911 at 1:10,
and let them know
what had happened.
And she called 911 at 5:30
and claimed that it happened
20 minutes ago.