In a pun-filled decision out of Cape Breton, an adjudicator has decided the owner of two wayward calves struck by a car must pay up.

“Chattel met cattle. The parties bring their ensuing beef to the court,” Raffi A. Balmanoukian, the adjudicator, said in a decision released Friday.

Shawna Vivian Bennett took Dr. Mary Doyle to small claims court in Sydney after her son struck two of the doctor’s young Highland cattle on Sept. 15, 2023, on his way home from a fishing trip.