The feud between two Minnesota towns about who has the right to use the name "Ice Box of the Nation" got more complicated on Sunday after a counter suit was filed by International Falls against Fraser.

"We're trying to resolve this. They filed the same on us now," Fraser Town Manger Jeff Durbin told Summit News. "We knew it was coming, so I'm not surprised."

The counter suit filed by International Falls asks for evidence supporting Fraser's claim that it has used the name since 1956. International Falls says it began calling itself the "Ice Box of the Nation" in 1948.

This is not the first time the two towns fought over the name, which International Falls officially owned as a trademark beginning 1986, when Fraser gave it up for $2,000. Renewal of the federal trademark by Minnesota city officials was neglected in 1996, giving Fraser the chance to apply to own it.

Last year, International Falls passed a resolution calling for Fraser to stop its "pretended claim" of being the "Icebox," the Sky Hi Newspaper reports. The towns then tried but failed to settle the feud after they could not agree whether to hold a snowball fight or a snowshoe competition.