In the library of the family home in Seacliff, San Francisco, Henry Barbour is trying to concentrate on the evening paper. Mother Barbour is knitting a golf sweater for Clifford - who at the moment is stretched out on the davenport. April 1950 will go down in the history of the Barbour family as the time when the head of the house was sued for trespass. Henry's attempt to beautify the deserted Rexford Frome place has brought about the first law suit in all his years as a law abiding, respectable, tax-paying citizen...