Legal Opinion

Stockdale v. Lester

Supreme Court of Iowa

Decided April 9, 1968No. 52772Published

1Opinion of the Court

158 N.W.2d 20 (1968)

Jerome E. STOCKDALE, Appellant,

v.

Stanley T. LESTER and Vivian E. Lester, husband and wife; and Herbert Allen, Appellees.

No. 52772.

Supreme Court of Iowa.

April 9, 1968.

Rosendahl & Forsyth, Estherville, for appellant.

Merrill C. Clark, Estherville, for appellees.

MOORE, Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment action, tried in equity, for construction of certain restrictive covenants pertaining to lots within a platted subdivision and for an injunction against defendants' proposed use of one lot as a public street. The trial court construed the covenants contrary to plaintiff's…

2Cases cited25 opinions

  1. Rock-Ola Manufacturing Corp. v. Music & Television Corp.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1959
  2. Friesen v. City of GlendaleCalifornia Supreme Court · 1930
  3. City of Houston v. WynneCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1925
  4. Anderson v. LynchSupreme Court of Georgia · 1939
  5. Jones v. BeiberSupreme Court of Iowa · 1960

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