WOODSTOCK – A Johnsburg man who found $150,000 in his vegetable garden may have to go to court in order to keep the cash.

Under the law, the finder becomes the keeper if the owner doesn't come forward one year from the last date of a published public notice. In this case, Wayne Sabaj found the money in August 2011, and the notice was published the following month.

But two parties have since come forward claiming ownership – the family of an elderly neighbor and the parent company of a liquor store whose president had been robbed.