Especially when it comes to neighbors. It gets more complicated when the neighbors have animals. The ultimate complication would be, of course, when the neighbors have both animals and lawyers. This is what happened in a beautiful little pocket of countryside near Oxford. On Stephenson Road, about five miles southwest of the college town, some former farmland is divided into long, narrow lots, about 200 feet wide.
Homeowners have a big front yard or a big back yard, depending on where somebody decided to build.
There are no side yards. Surrounded by acres of grass and trees, these half-dozen neighbors are very close to each other. Geographically, if not socially. All was tranquil there, to hear some of the neighbors tell the story, until one Bobby Wayne Webb showed up about two years ago and started raising chickens. Frank Truster, whose property abuts the Webb property on one side, says that was the end of the quiet.