Newman v. Bennefeld

PIERCE, Judge.

Appellants were defendants in the lower Court and appellees were plaintiffs. They will be referred to as they were in the Court below. Defendants appeal from a final decree entered by the Manatee County Circuit Court finding and adjudging that certain restrictions of record in connection with development of a subdivision were void and unenforceable and that plaintiffs and others in the same class were not obligated thereby.

Plaintiffs brought the action as a declaratory decree suit, challenging validity of certain recorded covenants contained in deed restrictions covering the…