Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — Irish Beat the Dotch in Porkish Lawsuit Monday. [ARTICLE]

Irish Beat the Dotch in Porkish Lawsuit Monday.

The ownership of a pig was the distressing cause of a lawsuit in Justice Bruner’s court Monday. Charley Schleman was the defendant and Mack Sullivan the plaintiff. Charley had rented Mack some pasture and also furnished Mack with some pigs. The pigs were to be raised on the shares and Mack was to pay for the pasture. The time came to divide the hogs and Charley thought he wpuld collect for the pasture at the same time. Accordingly he loaded an extra hog in the wagon. Mack objected but Charley went home with the porker. Mack consulted a lawyer. So did Charley. Justice Bruner acted as arbiter and he decided that Schleman’s method of collection was not quite legal and gave the pig back to Sullivan. It looks a good deal as though Charley was out the bacon, the pasture and the court costs and ahead nothing but the experience.