Forman v. Hancock

The grantor and grantees named in deeds to certain Los Angeles lots have appealed from a judgment which was rendered in a suit for declaratory relief brought under the provisions of section 1060 of the Code of. Civil Procedure to construe a clause in those instruments which restricts the use of the lots, among other limitations, to residential purposes. The deeds provide for a forfeiture of title and the right of repossession by the grantor in the event of a violation of any of these prohibited uses of the land. The court found that the conditions surrounding the premises changed since the…