Fidelity Title & Trust Co. v. Lomas and Nettleton Co.

The complaint alleged that the plaintiffs and their predecessors in title in 1926 laid out and divided a parcel of land in Stamford into a development containing fifty-four lots, of which the plaintiffs collectively still own thirteen and one-half. The remainder were sold, prior to 1932, to the defendants or their predecessors in title, and there are six residences on six and one-half of these lots. The deeds of conveyance contained numerous restrictive covenants and agreements including a provision that the first cost of any house built upon lots fronting on Sound View Avenue should be not…