Garvin Co., Inc. v. Lancaster County

Per Curiam,

The deed by which James Evans in 1852 conveyed to the County of Lancaster land within the City of Lancaster as a site for the present county courthouse, which was then about to be erected, contained two special clauses, one of which created an easement comprising a strip of land nine feet wide between the line of the property deeded to the county and the land retained by grantor; in the other clause grantor covenanted that he and his heirs and assigns “shall not at any time forever hereafter erect any building or buildings on his or their property on the line of the hereby granted…