Elrod v. Phillips

All of the findings of fact by the court are amply sustained by the evidence.

The question presented for our consideration is whether the findings of fact sustain the court’s conclusions of law. We have two lines of decisions in this jurisdiction involving the circumstances under which restrictive covenants in deeds for property originally devoted to residential purposes are rendered unenforceable or are enforced. The leading eases where such restrictions were held unenforceable are Starkey v. Gardner, 194 N. C., 74, and Snyder v. Caldwell, 207 N. C., 626, and the leading cases wherein such…