Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1913 — DOG IS JUDGE IN LAWSUIT [ARTICLE]

DOG IS JUDGE IN LAWSUIT

Bnarls at One Claimant and/Bound* Into Other's Lap in New York Court. r New York. —Shep, a collie, was the most important witness in the Mofrlsania court before Magistrate Marsh : in a suit between Mrs. Anna Morrissey and Mrs. Freda Maurer. Shep identified himself as the property of Mrs. Morrissey to the iuitlsfaetlon of the magistrate, who ordered him turned over to her. Mrs. Maurer, who has had possessslon of Shep for seven months, was brought into court on a summons Issued on the request of Mrs. Morrissey. The animal had been stolen, the complainant alleged. Mrs. Maurer said she got the dog from some boys and had named him Prince. The magistrate directed that r the two women sit at opposite ends of a table in the court room and that each call the dog by the name she had given him. "Here, Prince!" shouted Mrs. Man-, rer. 4 "Come on, Shep!" called out Mi* Morrissey. • - The dog appeared confused for a moment Then he snarled at Mrs. Maurer and leaped across, the table into Mrs. Morrissey’s lap. Thereupon Magistrate Marsh ordered the collie turned over to Mrs. Morrissey. >-