Show CASE WHERE MINUTES ARE VERY VALUABLE Dispute as to Whether Noon at Louisville Is Reckoned Reckoned Reckoned Reck Reck- by Standard or Solar Time LOUISVILLE Ky Nov No O 20 Whether O. noon in tn Lo Louisville Is re reckoned according ac ac- ac- ac cording to standard time or 01 time solar is the que question Uon ed In thirteen suits for Cor Insurance flied filed here herp b by the Gaulbert company compan and the Louis Louls- villa 1110 Lead and Color Colot company Each of these suits Is against In Insurance url nce companies companies com corn panics that held policies on the buildings of the two companies destroyed b by fire about midday April 1st last The policies of the thirteen defendant companies were In force from Crom noon April I 1 1901 to noon April 1 1 1 1002 None of or the policies makes It plain whether the word noon means according to st standard or solar olar time The records of or the fire department show that the flames names were discovered ered about aboul 1141 1145 o'clock although h the exact moment never ne has been definitely settled set set- tied Solar time Is seventeen se and half one minutes faster than standard time and If It the fire broke out at nt 1145 5 standard time It wo was then two and one half minutes after noon b by solar time Thus the defendant Insurance companies claim that the noon In the policies policies poli poll cies des means solar folar time and base their thell position for refu refusing to pa pay them upon the ground that the policies had expired two and one half minutes when the fire broke out |