People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1894 — Too Trivial. [ARTICLE]

Too Trivial.

Judge Chase, of Vermont, was a man of excellent sense, and a great stickler for the dignity of courts. At one time a case of very trifling importance, which had well-nigh run the gauntlet of legal adjudication, came before the highest court in the state. The counsel for the plaintiff was opening with the usual apologies for a frivolous suit, when the subject matter, “to wit, on* turkey, of great value," caught ths ear of the judge. “Mr. Clerk,” he called out in an irate tone, “strike that case from the docket The supreme court of the state of Ver mont does not sit here to determine the ownership of a turkey!”—YomthH Companion.