Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Telephone, October 27, 1893, p. 1. A five-dollar hog case occupied the time of the circuit court Tuesday. It was called in the morning and the jury did not return until the next morning. The suit cost Monroe county $100 or more and was brought by Joseph Houston against Thomas Y. Rader, charging that Rader killedone [sic] of his hogs in putting it out of a field, where it was a transgressor. The suit first went to a justice of the peace then found its way to the circuit court. When the law makes plaintiffs in civil suits give a good bond for costs, then the courts will be rid of about half the useless business that the people are compelled to pay for year in and year out. Clerk Cravens states to the Telephone that almost half the work of this term of court is in disposing of just such trash, in which not a cent of cost will be paid to anyone. It is hardly necessary to add that this suit, like most others of its kind, ended in a finding for the defendant. Constance T. Shotts, Ed.D., CG(SM) CG and Certified Genealogist are Service Marks of the Board for Certification of Genealogists, used under license by board certificants after periodic evaluations by the Board and the board name is a trademark registered in the US Patent and Trademark Office.