Legal Opinion

Holiday Pocono Civic Ass'n v. Benick

Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, Carbon County

Decided April 21, 1978No. 96Published

1Opinion of the Court

LAVELLE, P.J.,

This matter is before us on defendants’ preliminary objections to plaintiffs complaint in assumpsit. The issue raised by the pleadings is whether a property owners’ association may enforce against a lot owner an affirmative covenant in the latter’s deed to pay dues and assessments.

FACTUAL BACKGROUND

On a demurrer, of course, all well-pleaded facts in plaintiffs complaint and all inferences fairly deducible therefrom are deemed to be admitted: Adams v. Speckman, 385 Pa. 308, 122 A. 2d 685 (1956). These facts maybe summarized as follows:

On October 13, 1960, defendants entered into…

2Cases cited12 opinions

  1. Neponsit Property Owners' Ass'n v. Emigrant Industrial Savings BankNew York Court of Appeals · 1938
  2. Portnoy v. BrownSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1968
  3. Wilcox v. RegesterSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1965
  4. Adams v. SpeckmanSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1956
  5. Rossmassler v. SpielbergerSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1921

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