It's 1956 and the State Legislature has acted to eliminate effective August 1 the state's Justice Courts and their presiding Justices-of-the-Peace and replace them with Village Courts and Village Court judges (preferably Republicans) appointed pending the next election by GOP Governor Marcus Diptill. Mrs. Jane Klamatty, a feisty politically Independent fifty-something widow and the JP for twenty years in Hayfield, a dot on the Minnesota prairie, consequently faces extermination. But the governor's brother-in-law, a former Land Grant U football star, shows up in her Justice Court in mid-May, charged with a terrible crime: passing a school bus with STOP extended and warning lights flashing. Can Klamatty, aided and abetted by her lawyer boyfriend Web Allen, parlay the brother-in-law into a Village Court judge appointment? While simultaneously adjudicating as to who, State Rep. Wolfe Strudel or his hated neighbor Old Jerry Hennessey, owns a prize Spotted Poland China boar that survived a train-truck collision. A case Klamatty's friend Eddie Devlin, a reporter at the Winatchee Falls Bugle Call, milks for a $5 AP award. - Back cover.