Show SPUDS CAUSE TROUBLE long lawsuit follows dispute over six barrels of potatoes washington als the case of A R mead appellant vs william simpson respondent which was decided in the supreme court brings to a close the first act in the famous iron river potato case the case involves an amount of three dollars the pa ment for six bushels of potatoes and while the amount Is not large the case Is being watched with more in terest by the people of dayfield coun ty than cases involving thousands of dollars about a year and a half ago A R mead sold to sampson six bushels ot potatoes and was to get three dollars in payment for them sampson who at the time of the sale was working for the iron river hardware company sent mead to the company manager for the pay when mead presented the bill be was told that the amount would be credited to hla account at the store and sampson charged with the account he refused this and soon started suit to recover the amount of the bill the case has been in litigation for a year and has been fought in the mu court circuit court and finally carried to the supreme court at the time that it was before the circuit court the ludge ordered it back to the lower court but the supreme court reversed this decision and it must now be tried out in the circuit court it has been one of the hardest fought cases that has been tried in the coun ty tor some time and the end yet beems some distance away |