She initiated a confrontation with me.
You can't do that.
It... I didn't... It wasn't my intention.
She installed a camera, set me up...
It was absolutely your intention.
You can't do that.
[narrator] This is Judy Justice.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] Sherry and Jeffrey Marshall are suing their neighbors,
Joseph and Jennifer Feugate for an insurance deductible
and filing a false police report.
[bailiff] Court, come to order. All rise.
Have a seat, please.
Case #2074, Marshall versus Feugate.
- Thank you. - You're welcome.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, you live across the street from Mr. Feugate
- and his mother. - Yes.
How long have you lived in your house?
Twenty-two years.
And Mr. Feugate, how long have you lived in your house?
Your Honor, my mom has lived in the house longer than I have.
She's lived in it since 2008. I moved in in 2016.
Mr. and Mrs. Marshall, this problem that I'm gonna try to rectify today,
- deals with parking space. - Yes.
And the parking space is a public parking space, correct?
- Yes, ma'am. - Yes.
And it's on the street. And the public parking space
happens to be in front of your home.
- Yes, ma'am. - [Judy] You live across the street.
- Yes, ma'am. - [Judy] And the case involves
acrimony that has developed because you, Mr. Feugate,
would like to keep that spot that's in front of your home,
free for your mother, who you say, for health reasons,
would be more convenient for her to park right in front of the house.
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] And Mr. and Mrs. Marshall sometimes, or always,
park in that spot. That's what the problem is.
- Yes. - [Judy] Okay.
And I assume you're going to speak for your husband for now?
I can, yes.
Do you want her to talk for you?
It's fine.
[laughs] He learned his lesson well.
Oh, that's very good. Perfect.
I can speak for myself. If she needs to, she can.
[Judy] Perfect. You've been living there a long time.
Did you have any trouble with the Feugate family
about this parking space between 2008 and 2016?
- No. - [Judy] So, before the son moved in,
you had no problem.
That's right.
That's a lie, Your Honor.
Just a second. Had you ever had discussions with Mrs. Feugate
about parking in that spot before he came?
No, ma'am. - [Judy] Okay.
Now, Mrs. Feugate, did you understand what I said?
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] Okay. I want you to be very careful in your answer to me.
Yes, ma'am.
You've lived there for a long time.
Your son didn't move in until 2016. Before your son moved in,
did you ever have any communication with Mr. and Mrs. Marshall
about parking in front of your house?
Ma'am, she didn't park in front of my house before my son moved in.
Okay. So, is that correct?
That's correct.
Okay. Can you tell me what changed after her son moved in?
Okay. Where I park at is actually across the street from the Feugates.
It's right by my driveway. And I park my Toyota Avalon
right beside my driveway, which is the parking spot
that Mr. Feugate is causing the problems over.
So, the parking spot is in front of your house?
No, it's not in front of my house, it's beside my driveway.
- [Judy] But on your side of the house. - That's correct.
- [Judy] On your side of the street. - Correct.
Did they have a parking space in front of their house on their side of the street?
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] Do you ever park there?
I have, when they took the parking space I usually park in,
I did park across the street.
Okay. So, occasionally, either Mr. Feugate, his mother,
parks on your side of the street, on a public street,
and you'll park in front of their house.
Correct.
Okay, I got it. Okay. So, let me tell you all this:
We're gonna finish part of the case right now.
Too bad.
You can park wherever you want on a public street.
Because there are other visitors that come, I assume,
for people who live on the block that they take up parking spaces
and occasionally there aren't other parking spaces.
You know, there's no question you would prefer to park on your side of the street
and you would prefer to park on your side of the street.
If you can't, you can't.
Mr. Feugate, I'm just telling you, just so that you know,
you have no right to a public parking space.
Yes, I understand that, Your Honor.
I'm not the one that needs to be told that, though.
You have no right to a public parking space.
Yes, ma'am.
Where do you live? In what state?
Ohio. Cincinnati.
Okay. I've actually been to Cincinnati, frequently.
But I am certain that there is no regulation in Ohio
or any city or town thereof, that says, well, you sort of had first dibs
on the parking space, on the public street that's in front of your house.
That's ridiculous.
The best that Cincinnati has, Your Honor, is a three-day law
that if the vehicle doesn't move within three days,
then it could be towed by the city. But that's the best that they have.
You live across the street from each other. Did either of you
ever call the police and say a car has been there for more than three days?
- Yes, Your Honor. - Who did?
- [Joseph] I did, Your Honor. - Why?
Because the spot in question, that's directly across the street,
it's actually, it's hindering to the entire flow of the neighborhood
and where everybody parks on the street.
I served ten years, Army, and, um...
I fight for... I fought for people's rights.
Listen, I don't care if you're a good person, if you're not a good person.
if you're a do-gooder, if you're not a do-gooder.
It's a public street. And if what you're suggesting to me is
they should be nice, it's an older person and they shouldn't park in that spot...
What I'm telling you is, I wouldn't start up with anybody
by calling the police on a car that I... Especially a car that I knew.
I know that it's my neighbor's car, They've been living there for 22 years,
relatively peacefully. Relatively peace...
It hasn't really been peaceful, Your Honor.
You moved there.
Yes, I did.
They were living there a decade before you moved there. You.
Yes, ma'am.
If it wasn't peaceful, there are options, you're a free person.
But I think it's absolutely ridiculous. I can't imagine my calling the police
on a neighbor's car that was parked in the street.
Well, that created problems. Okay. So, I see where we're going,
we're gonna get to this case.
Reimbursement for insurance deductible. That's one thing.
Because you claim that Mr. Feugate damaged your car.
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] On what date?
That was on June the 26th.
[Judy] Of this year?
Of '21, I'm sorry.
Okay. Do you have any video evidence of the damage to your car?
No, ma'am, all I have is a picture.
Tell me how he damaged the car. With what did he damage the car?
Okay. He damaged the car with his hand. I'm parking the car...
[Judy] You mean in front of...
In front of Mrs. Feugate's home.
- [Judy] So, on her side of the street. - Yes, ma'am.
I exit the car. Mr. Feugate is being erratical...
No-no, don't tell me what your perception of... Tell me what he did.
He was beating the hood of the car.
[Judy] He came up to the car and was hitting the top of the car.
- [Sherry] Yes, ma'am. - [Judy] Okay, now I'll see the car.
And the police report.
I see the dent. And that's the hood of the car.
Okay.
Okay, this police report says Mr. Feugate told the police in his narrative,
that this incident occurred... There was a disagreement over the parking space
and that you struck him with the car, causing minor injury.
Okay, because you have a cross complaint for that.
That is correct.
[Judy] So, that's a simple... June 26th, I see the car was damaged,
there's no question it was damaged by somebody pounding on the hood.
And I assume that was you.
Ma'am, that's wrong. I did not pound on the hood.
Well, then, tell me, Mr. Feugate, how these dents occurred,
just the way they look, on the hood of the car.
Your Honor, there is a... I have the 911 audio calls of the night,
as well as the police report. And I also drew up a diagram
where she was originally parked, that explains everything. But...
[Judy] Okay. So, I'd like to see that.
Um, ma'am, if I could approach the diagram?
[Judy] Absolutely. June 26th.
On June 26th, I was talking to my parents when the Marshalls came home.
My car was parked right here. Okay, they came home,
they blocked their own driveway and parked right up on top of my bumper.
Just a second. Just a second. So, you, Mr. Feugate,
were parked on a public street where you could park,
on their side of the street, not your side of the street.
Yes, Your Honor.
And they came up, blocking their own driveway.
Yes, Your Honor.
[Judy] Okay. Did you see them? Were you in the house watching?
No, I was on my parents' porch.
Okay. So, now you're on your parents' porch, they're in their car,
and they blocked their own driveway.
Yes, Your Honor. Not a big ordeal, right.
Not any of your business.
Right. It wasn't, like I said, wasn't a problem to me...
Wasn't any of your business.
- Exactly. So... - [Judy] Go ahead.
I'm talking to my parents on the phone, they're just getting done working.
I can hear that the Marshalls are upset
about where I'm parked at on a public street.
And I went out to save my parents' spot, because I could hear her say,
I'm gonna teach him a lesson.
So, Mr. Feugate, now, is what you're telling me that that car,
where you're standing, you went out to make it so
that they could not park on a public street.
Is that what you're telling me? The answer is yes.
- Yes. Yes. - [Judy] You got off the porch,
to stand in the street to block them
from moving in front of your house
because your car was parked on their side of the street.
- No. No, Your Honor. - Just...
- No, you got that wrong. - Is that red car yours?
The red car is mine. Yes, Your Honor.
Just a... The red car is yours. Listen, I'm not a moron.
- [Joseph] I know that. - The white car
is the space that you wanted to save for your parents.
Yes, Your Honor. The were on their way home. I was talking...
Who gives a rat's behind where they were.
- Now you have both spots. - This whole area was clear.
There is a crossing road that comes through here, and they coulda parked...
Who made you the monitor of public parking?
No one.
Who do you think you are to be the monitor of public parking?
[theme music playing]
[narrator] Sherry and Jeffrey Marshall claim their neighbors,
Joseph and Jennifer Feugate, owe for an insurance deductible
and filing a false police report.
Joseph and Jennifer are countersuing for medical bills from an assault.
Now, you went out on a public street to go like this,
to save a parking space for your parents,
- that you had no right to do. - Yes, Your Honor.
Let me just understand this. You had no right to go out there.
You parked on their side of the street, and then, you went outside
to save the spot 'cause your parents were on their way home.
- Yeah, not... - Just a second.
You have no right to do that. Zero. Don't you understand that?
No, actually, I don't understand that, Your Honor.
How do I not have a right to save a spot...
You do not have a right to save a public... Just a second.
You don't have that right. Because I'm here to tell you.
You don't have a right to save a spot on a public street
by standing in the street like this, don't park here.
I wasn't like this.
I don't care whether you were hopping on one foot and chewing gum.
You don't have the right to save a spot...
And it makes it twice as obnoxious because you parked on their side of the street.
Now, if there was a spot in front of their house that they could park in
and they said no, I'm gonna park in front of the Defendant's house,
I could say, you know what, that's nasty.
- [Joseph] Well, that's... - [Judy] That's nasty.
Now you have both spots.
This whole area was clear. Okay, and there is a crossing road
that comes through here and they coulda parked...
Who made you the monitor of public parking?
- No one. - Who do you think you are
to be the monitor of public parking? Get back.
- [audience laughs] - [Joseph] Yes, Your Honor.
[Judy] Okay. So now, Mr. Monitor of Public Parking,
you come out and you're standing in the street to save the spot.
She comes around to park there. Right?
Yes, Your Honor.
Tell me what happened.
Well, um, she came around to park there and then she hit me with her car.
[Judy] Just a second. She came around to park there,
and you were standing in the street.
Yes, Your Honor.
Okay. Pay careful attention. Where did she hit you in the car before you moved?
She hit me in the knee.
In the knee. And so you jumped out of the way... No-no...
I fell on her car. I was talking on the phone,
and when she hit me in the knee, I fell on her car.
Baloney. That's not what this is. What was the damage to your car?
That's baloney, that didn't happen 'cause your elbow went on her car.
Sir, she hit you on the knee. She hit you on the knee with the front of her car,
which is possible. By the way, you have medical records to show me?
- [Joseph] I do. - I'd like to see them.
The record should reflect that they closed this case,
made no arrests in this case and probably told everybody to behave themselves,
which is what I'm doing.
I apologize.
[sighs] Okay. What is this?
That is the ambulance bill for...
I want to see a medical record. I don't care if you went in an ambulance,
and I want to see what the doctor reported about your injury. Where is that?
I was unable to get that.
[Judy] Well, that's too bad. I'm not interested in this, that's nonsense.
Okay. How much did it cost to fix your car?
Here we are. Thank you.
And you have a $500 deductible?
Yes, ma'am.
$500, so far, for the Plaintiff. The counterclaim,
that talks about medical bills for this, is dismissed.
Okay. Filing a false police report.
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] And the false police report you're talking about is what?
Mrs. Feugate initiated a confrontation with me.
[Judy] When?
December 22nd. I'm on my way to my vehicle,
Mrs. Feugate is parked, maybe like ten feet behind me...
[Judy] Put up the diagram again, please.
Okay. Just go over to the board. This is a different date,
but I just want you to show me where she was and where you were.
Okay. Mrs. Feugate was parked right about here.
She parked right about there, which is opposite your house.
Yes, ma'am.
[Judy] Okay.
And I'm parked here.
- [Judy] In front of her house. - Correct.
Okay. So, you're both on the same side of the street,
which is the Defendant's side of the street.
You're parked across the street from your house.
- [Sherry] That's correct. - Got it.
- Go ahead. What happened? - Okay.
And Mrs. Feugate, she comes out of her car and she's walking towards me,
she's upset, she's yelling, and I don't remember all of the words
that she was saying, but it was about parking.
She was telling me I couldn't park where I was parked at.
She's yelling, she's screaming, I'm trying to reason with her.
- Could you step back there? - Yes.
I'm trying to reason with Mrs. Feugate, I'm telling her it's a public street.
and I can park there. She's yelling and screaming and telling me that I can't.
We're standing in front of one another. She's still yelling and screaming
and I'm trying to reason with her. Next thing I know,
she hits me on the hand. My reflex, I pushed her back.
Next thing I know, she's still standing after I pushed.
Next thing I know, I guess she thought about it,
then she made herself fall on the ground.
[Judy] Well, I don't know whether she did or not.
Somebody said, with regard to this, that there's a video of this.
Is that correct?
Yes, ma'am.
It was recorded, wasn't shown in court.
I don't care whether it was shown in court or not. I would like to see...
'Cause I read here that there's a security video of what happened on...
There's a security camera.
If it's a video, you don't have to go up there, Mrs. Feugate,
'cause I can actually see it myself. So now,
those are the two cars parked on the same side of the street
and they are parked on the Defendant's side of the street.
Yes, ma'am.
- [Judy] And your car is the... - Black car.
Your car is the black car, their car is the red car.
That's correct.
And that's Mrs. Feugate getting out of her car.
Okay, now I'd like to see the video.
[Jennifer] She started to move up.
So, I thought I'd move my car a little closer.
Ssh! Don't speak.
- [Sherry] That's when she... - [Judy] Ssh!
Okay, I'm gonna see that again, please.
And I'd like you to do it slowly, at some point
when they're right in each other's faces and getting very nasty.
Oh, no-no, Mrs. Marshall, you can't do that.
- It wasn't my intention. When she... - [Judy] Just a second.
It was absolutely your intention.
No, it was not.
- It was absolutely your intention... - No.
Listen. You know, I'm an equal opportunity abuser.
You can't do that. You can't do what I just saw.
What I just saw is unreasonable behavior.
And totally inconsistent to being, maybe, which I didn't see,
- slapped on the hand. - Right.
[Judy] Maybe slapped on the hand. I didn't see it.
But I did see you give her a substantial shove,
and she is a person who has a certain infirmity and she fell.
And if she fell, and if she was injured, you're responsible. That's it.
I saw you give her a shove, that didn't, as you say,
she decided to fall back down. No, madam, you hit her with such force
- that she fell backward. - You weren't there.
You say no, I say yes, I'm a judge, I win.
[theme music playing]
[narrator] Sherry and Jeffrey Marshall have accused their neighbors,
Joseph and Jennifer Feugate, of damaging their car.
Jennifer claims she was assaulted by Sherry over a parking spot.
Now, I saw the video, I don't have to have your mother testify.
You should've not created an incident, Mrs. Feugate.
I did not.
Just a second. Yes, you did.
I was walking toward the car and I was to go to my car and pull up,
because she was starting to pull her car up.
And if you look, she started to pull her car up first.
And then, when she come around the car, she's holding her cell phone yelling,
"I got you on recording. I'm recording you
because I'm gonna show you a hate crime." Excuse me...
Just a second. Part of the problem is you and your son
have to understand that you have no right to the parking spaces
that on a public street, just a second, in front of your house.
And your son, clearly, is a provocateur in this
because he parks his car on their side of the street.
I'm not get... So, what I'm doing is I am dissecting this case.
If I have two unreasonable people, they're gonna continue
to make each other's lives miserable, and I can't control that.
All I can do is hear each individual side. So, Mrs. Feugate,
I have already said that Mrs. Marshall had no right, based upon what I saw,
to push you with such force that you fell. I would like to see the medical report
after the incident of December 22nd. May I see it, Kevin?
I was in the ER, and I had to wear a brace for a month, on my arm and shoulder.
Did you have any out-of-pocket expense?
I paid $900 'cause it was Christmas holidays.
All I want to know is did you have any out-of-pocket expense.
- Yes, Your Honor. - And I also I had...
Ssh! What is this?
I had to have a woman come in and clean my house...
- [Judy] I don't care about that. - That was out-of-pocket.
Return that. That's a bill for somebody to come in and clean.
Let her clean. Okay. So, filing a false police report and false arrest.
- Who was arrested? - I was.
[Judy] You were arrested, in my judgment, legitimately,
because of based upon what I saw. So, I'm dismissing...
That is not why they arrested me.
Oh, okay. So, that is not... The reason that you were arrested, was not this?
The reason why I was arrested is because when she hit me,
and when I pushed her back... When they asked me what happened,
I did not tell them that she had struck me.
Miss Marshall, is the reason you were arrested
based upon the occurrence of December 22nd?
- Yes, it was. - Well, that's what I said.
So, don't say no. The reason you were arrested and claim, falsely,
is as a result of the December 22nd incident.
But I was cleared.
I don't care whether you were cleared or not. I didn't clear you.
The burden of proof in a criminal case is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.
Okay? That is not the burden of proof in a civil proceeding.
It's a much lower standard. I looked at that video,
I believe that your conduct was unconscionable.
And not hers? You didn't see her...
I think that her behavior was stupid.
- Yeah. - [Judy] Just a second.
I don't see her hitting you. I see you walking away.
Miss Marshall, I see you walk away. But I saw you give her a shove
that, as you say, she decided to fall back down... No, madam,
you hit her with such force that she fell backward.
- You weren't there... - You say no, I say yes,
I'm a judge, I win. So you... On your case,
I said absolutely, I don't believe him. I don't believe that the damage to your car
resulted from his putting his elbow on it. I told him,
you have absolutely no right to save a space for your parents.
- I awarding... - The whole case is malicious.
From what you saw him do, that's what she did.
She installed a camera, set me up, lured me in front of the camera.
She knew what she was doing when she hit me on the hand.
- Oh, she knew. - Just a second.
Just a second. It's not your judgment I'm concerned about, madam.
I'm telling you, based upon what I saw, I'm awarding Mrs. Feugate,
who I think she and her son both have to understand what a public street is.
I'm awarding her $2,000 on her counterclaim
for her injuries as a result of the assault.
I'm dismissing the part of your claim for false arrest.
I awarded you the $500 that you asked for for your deductible.
You got your $500, it's coming off the $2,000 that I've awarded Mrs. Feugate
for her injuries. Judgment on the counterclaim for $1,500.
Thank you very much, we're done.
[bailiff] This court is adjourned.
I wouldn't have never maliciously pushed anybody.
I've been trying to tell this story forever.
I didn't know what else she was gonna do. I was trying to protect myself.
It really does harden me that there are people out there
that could go and just do this.
I have always been friendly, I never bother anyone.
They keep bothering us.
We're really hoping that this does resolve the issue.
I just want them to leave us alone.
Bring 'em to Judy Justice.
- Because she really does care. - 'Cause justice will be served.
You wanna know how I know that the Plaintiff wasn't being truthful
when she said that, I wasn't being malicious, it was an accident,
I did not push her that hard. If that had happened to me,
and I was just trying to get someone away from me,
and that reaction from the Defendant of falling back.
I thought she almost cracked her head on the curb.
I would've said, I'm so sorry! Oh, my goodness! I would've gone down to her,
I didn't mean to push you, let me help you up.
The Plaintiff just walked right back to her car.
And you could see her face almost had a smirk on it.
Just walked right back to her car like she didn't even care.
And that, to me, says you knew exactly what you were doing
when you put your hands on that woman.
Yeah. And I didn't see a slap.
- It could've happened. - I said, it could've happened,
I just didn't see it.
That reaction was above and...
- Was an over-reaction. - Of course.
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