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The spelling wasn't the only thing funny about this story.
"District Judge William C. Larson admitted today there is no way to tell good ludefisk from bad by smell alone — and he put the problem squarely up to the bacteriologists at University of Minnesota.
"The question came before the judge when two ludefisk — one, unquestionably good, the other, allegedly bad — were brought into his courtroom within sniffing distance.
"In the case of Ivan Bogen, representing the InterState Brokerage Co., versus Olsen Fish Co., Bogen was demanding payment of $1,396.18 for delivering 47 bales of 'dry stock fish' to Olsen in November, 1948. The fish company rejected the shipment on the ground the fish were spoiled."
