Mathewson v. Primeau

This is a neighborhood row, being dignified into a cause celebre. The defendants live on a 13-acre tract in rural King County between Kirkland and Redmond. This has been their home since 1948, and here they have raised some 14 children with 11 of them still being at home.

They kept a boar and brood sows. They raised hogs from pigs. It is affirmed, on excellent authority, that “Pigs is Pigs.” Pigs become hogs, and neither are deodorized. The defendants also accumulated old automobiles and parts thereof, together with crates, lumber, old boxes, and discarded household appliances. The premises…