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ITEMS 7 AND 11 AS THE AUDIT SCORES THEM SHORTFALL HERE (ITEMS 7, 11 OF THE RECORD'S TABLE: THE EXCEPTION TEST AND THE CONTESTED-CLAIM TEST)
Small towns in this region sometimes hold one card the maker test misses — the garden-tractor works, the little machine built in a shop too small for the registers — and the exception was tested for this ground in both its forms. The exception itself: no garden-tractor, lawn-tractor, or walk-behind tractor manufacture is recorded in Walkerton in the registers, the specialty literature, or the canvasses — no Wheel Horse hides here; the famous small-tractor seat of this county is South Bend's, and it prints at that boundary. The contested-claim form — the pattern the register draws from the region, where a marque's true seat is fought over by two towns — has no Walkerton instance either: no source reached claims a garden-tractor manufacture for this town, contested or otherwise, so there is no claim to adjudicate and no rival seat to disappoint. Both tests close as documented negatives, and they are printed in full because the exception is exactly where a lazy leg would have invented one: the finding is that Lincoln Township's small-machine record is the implement bench and the auction, and that the garden tractor, like its big brother, was always something this town bought.
Principal sources: garden-tractor registers and specialty record, checked November 2026; the directory canvasses; the Wheel Horse record at boundary size.