Haugen v. Peterson

YETKA, Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal from the court of appeals which enforced restrictive covenants on land owned by appellant, preventing her from constructing a new home on a lot created by subdividing her original lot. The court of appeals reversed the District Court of Hennepin County, which had held the restrictive covenants void by reason of Minn.Stat. § 500.-20, subd. 2 (1980) (repealed 1982). 1 We reverse the court of appeals and reinstate the decision of the district court.

In 1947, Muriel Y. Peterson and her husband purchased a lot in an area which became the Indian…