Scharer v. Pantler
Missouri Court of Appeals
Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. Daniel D. Fisher, Judge. The fact that the line on which the fronts of all the houses in the tract, including defendants,’ are situated, may be less than twenty-five feet from the street line, furnishes no excuse to defendants to extend their building in front of the others.
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Appeal from St. Louis City Circuit Court.—Hon. Daniel D. Fisher, Judge. The fact that the line on which the fronts of all the houses in the tract, including defendants,’ are situated, may be less than twenty-five feet from the street line, furnishes no excuse to defendants to extend their building in front of the others. Morrow v. Hasselman (N. J.), 61 Atl. 369; Moore v. Murphy, 34 N. Y. S. 1130; Los Angeles University v. Swarth, 107 Fed. 798; Payson v. Burnham, 141 Mass. 547; McGuire v. Caskey, 62 Oh. St. 419; Sanders v. Dixon, 114 M'o. App. 229; Improvement Co. v. Tower, 158 Mo. 282;…
1Opinion of the CourtNortoni, J.
The suit is in equity and invokes the process of injunction. Plaintiffs seek to enjoin the defendant from erecting an addition to his residence in violation of an alleged building restriction contained in the deed. The circuit court, after hearing the evidence, dismissed the bill and plaintiffs appeal.
The material facts with respect to the controversy are: about 1886, one Virginia S. Peugnet owned a tract of land in city block 1383, city of St. Louis, extending along and fronting upon the east side of Jefferson avenue from Shenandoah avenue on the south, northward six hundred and one feet and…
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