Barnes v. City of Anderson

FRIEDLANDER, Judge.

Virginia Barnes and Jan Swearingen appeal the trial court's decision in favor of the City of Anderson granting a permanent injunction enjoining the women from keeping and maintaining Swearingen's pet Vietnamese pot-belly pig, Sassy, and ordering Sassy's removal from the residence. 1

We reverse.

In September 1992, the City received complaints that a pig was being kept at an Anderson residence. Barnes owns the property and leases it to her daughter, Swearin-gen. In response to these complaints, the City Zoning Administrator visited the home and determined that a pig did, in…