Reardon v. Murphy

This is a bill in equity to enforce a restriction contained in a deed of land, conveyed by the plaintiff to the defendant. A decree was entered for the plaintiff by a single justice of this court, and the case comes before us on report. The words of the restriction are as follows: “No building erected on said premises shall be placed at a less distance than twenty feet from said easterly line of Parsons Street.”

The front line of the main body of the house was twenty feet from the street. Attached to the house, and extending along the entire front, was a piazza about eight feet wide, encircled…