Supreme Court Unable To Classify Ouija Boards

1922

CANNOT PASS ON OUIJA BOARD

Supreme Court Admits Inability to Classify It.

WASHINGTON, June 5.—The Supreme Court today announced it would not determine what is a ouija board. The question was presented in a case brought by the Baltimore Talking Board company, which protested against taxation of such boards as sporting goods and insisted that should the court refuse to hold that the board "is a grade motor automatism, involving considerable subconscious action of intelligence," that it should at least classify the smaller boards as "children's toys."

The lower federal courts sustained the government's contention that the boards should be classed as sporting goods.

—The Nebraska State Journal, Lincoln, Nebraska, June 6, 1922, page 1.