Oosterhouse v. Brummel

The plaintiffs, John E. Oosterhouse and Gertie W. Oosterhouse, platted certain land in Kent county, Michigan, as “Ranch Home Sites,” retaining title to one lot. The area was intended as a high-grade residential district. To that end, numerous restrictions were imposed, all of the deeds, containing similar restrictions. A certain portion of the exterior walls were: to be of brick or stone.. The houses must have not less than a prescribed number of square feet of ground floor area. We will not recite all. We are concerned only with one —the set-back restriction. It reads as follows:

“Houses on…