Carr v. Trivett

This case is here for a review of the chancellor’s decree enjoining defendants, Ola Mae Trivett et ah, from operating a tourist home upon a lot purchased from complainants as a part of a restricted residential subdivision known as Sequoyah Hills near Johnson City, Tennessee.

From the findings and decree of the chancellor, defendants have appealed and assigned errors raising, as the primary insistence, that the operation of a tourist home is only incidental to the use of the premises for residence purposes and does not constitute the conduct and operation of a business. It is also insisted that…