Brigham City Bugler | 1891-10-24 | Page 2 | Triding Things to Court

Trifling Tiling In Court. Very trifling things sometimes go very far in the courts. The Bnpreme court of the United States has ended a costly and loug controversy by ruling npon the qnestion, "Is the tomato a fruit or a vegetable?" About W,00Q has been expended ex-pended in the celebrated "Jones county calf case," in Iowa, in which the ownership owner-ship of a calf valued at fifteen dollars is involved. A Medina county (0.) farmer a few years ago refused to pay taxes on four moolleys on the ground that the law provided for the taxation of "all horned cattle of whatsoever kind,-whereas kind,-whereas the four cowa had no horns. This case wa? ended in the circuit court after the costs had eaten np the value of the defendant's farm. A suit for taxes in which the Standard Oil company is involved to the extent of several hundred hun-dred thousand dollars in Pennsylvania and Ohio hangs upon the insertion of a comma in an Ohio statute. Chicago Mail