Peck v. Hartshorn

The plaintiff owns a house and lot in Winthrop and the defendant owns an adjoining lot. This is a bill in equity to prevent the defendant from erecting a private stable upon her lot. The plaintiff and the defendant both bought from the Winthrop Shore Land Company, a voluntary association operating under a deed of trust to develop and sell an extensive tract of land in Winthrop. The plaintiff relies upon certain restrictions inserted in her deed and in the defendant’s deed which the master finds were inserted by the common grantor for the benefit of these two and other lots pursuant to a…