Jones v. Gaddy

Clarke, Presiding Justice.

The question before us in this case is whether the grantee of a deed containing restrictive covenants has standing to complain that a successor in title to a separate tract of land deeded by the same grantor has breached identical covenants.

The Digbys, the common grantors of the parties here, divided a parcel of land into two tracts. A plat in the record prepared in May 1983, and recorded in January 1984, shows the Digby land divided into Tract A and Tract B. The plat itself contains no restrictive covenants. Appellees are all owners of lots in Tract A. Appellant is…