Burns v. Wood

OPINION

BREWSTER, Justice.

This case involves restrictive covenants. The plaintiff, Bobby M. Burns, sued defendant, Edgar A. Wood, for an injunction to keep the latter from building and operating multi-unit apartment houses on certain land owned by Wood.

Following a jury trial judgment was rendered to the effect that the plaintiff, Burns, and two intervenors, Dubose Pipes and James H. Watson, take nothing by their suit. This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Burns, from that decree. Intervenors, Pipes and Watson, did not appeal.

Plaintiff had alleged in substance that in 1926 a corporation, Park…