Goater v. Ely

Garrison, V. C.

The complainant was the owner of a tract of land at Eidgewood, Yew Jersey. On the 34th of December, 1908, he conveyed a portion of this tract (retaining the balance thereof in his own ownership) to the defendant, Willet C. Ely, by a deed containing a restriction in the following words:

“There shall not be erected on said premises any blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, shop for the carrying on of any kind of trade or business, factory, slaughter-house, store, tenement-house, hotel or liquor saloon, and.no trade or business shall be carried on or permitted on said premises, and…