The 11 complaints were consolidated and heard at a single trial. All claimed to have been subjected to shame and humiliation because they had been identified with the characters in the book, which topped national non-fiction best seller lists well into its second year in print.Īlbert Bishop, age 87, who alleged he was depicted as Pa (also spelled Paw) Kettle, was too ill to appear in court and his wife Suzanne Bishop, whom the family identified as the inspiration for Ma/Maw Kettle, was deceased, but the rest of the family was present in court each day of the trial. Johnson alleged that he was depicted as Crowbar, an Indian. The Bishop family alleged that they had been depicted by MacDonald as the good natured but slatternly Kettle family in The Egg and I. The Bishop children were brothers Herbert, Wilbur, Eugene, Arthur, Charles, and Walter Bishop, sisters Edith Bishop Stark and Madeline Bishop Holmes, and Herbert Bishop's wife, Janet Bishop. The plaintiffs were Albert Bishop and his six sons, two daughters, and one daughter-in-law, all former or current residents of Jefferson County, and Raymond H. Lippincott, Pocket Books (which issued a 25-cent paperback edition), and The Bon Marché department store are named as co-defendants in the suit. MacDonald (1910-1975), the book's publisher J. On February 5, 1951, a lawsuit brought by members of the Albert Bishop family against Vashon Island resident Betty MacDonald (1907-1958), author of the bestselling book The Egg and I, begins in King County Superior Court in Seattle.
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