Harris v. Skirving

The defendants were about to establish and operate a private garbage dump near the outskirts of the city of Bremerton, in a wooded area designated generally as the Kitsap Lake District. The proposed operation had prospects of considerable magnitude, since the city of Bremerton had ceased the municipal collection of garbage, and the Navy Yard was a prospective customer as well as the inhabitants of the territory surrounding the city.

There are forty-five homes within half a mile of the proposed project and two hundred fifty homes within a radius of one and one-half miles. The area surrounding…