Arnoff v. Williams
Ohio Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county. Defendants in error, other than James M. Cassidy, owners of certain lots in the hamlet of Lakewood, Cuyahoga county, brought an action in the court of common pleas of that county to enjoin Cassidy and plaintiff in error, Morris Arnoff, from violating certain building restrictions and for other relief.
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Error to the Court of Appeals of Cuyahoga county. Defendants in error, other than James M. Cassidy, owners of certain lots in the hamlet of Lakewood, Cuyahoga county, brought an action in the court of common pleas of that county to enjoin Cassidy and plaintiff in error, Morris Arnoff, from violating certain building restrictions and for other relief. The court of common pleas held that plaintiffs below, H. L. Williams and others, were not entitled to the relief prayed for and dismissed their petition. On appeal to the court of appeals the case was heard upon the pleadings and an agreed…
1Opinion of the CourtNewman, J.
The signing of the agreements of March 16, 1900, to which the predecessor in title of the parties to this action was a party, was neither attested by witnesses nor acknowledged according to law. By force of the provisions of Section 8543, General Code, the agreements were concededly not entitled to record. The mere recording of them had no legal effect and could not operate as constructive notice to prospective purchasers of the property to which their provisions related. But in all the deeds *149made by the common predecessor in title, and in the deeds to defendants in error, including the deed…
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