Denver Napier v. Gail Howard

OPINION

Charles D. Susano, Jr., J.,

delivered the opinion of the court,

in which John W. McClarty and Thomas R. Frierson, II, JJ., joined.

Gail Howard purchased at auction a subdivision lot in Grainger County. The deed to Howard’s lot, as well as the deeds to the other lots in the subdivision, contains a restrictive covenant prohibiting “single wide mobile homes.” Howard converted her lot into a campground with sixteen camper trailer sites for rent. Denver Napier, Sheryl Napier, and Jeffrey Bryant (collectively the plaintiffs), each of whom had purchased a lot in the subdivision, filed a…