Julian v. Lawton

EeviN, J".

We take it for granted without so deciding for the purpose of this particular ease that the covenant in question was valid in law at the time of its insertion in the deed to the plaintiffs’ grantors. Since we indulge this assumption, our decision must turn on the construction of the relevant documents.

The law looks with disfavor upon covenants restricting the free use of property. As a consequence, the law declares that nothing can be read into a restrictive covenant enlarging its meaning beyond what its language plainly and unmistakably imports. Starmount Co. v. Memorial Park, 233…