Dodds v. St. Louis Union Trust Co.

The following is an abridged statement of the cause of action. In 1925 E. W. Grove undertook the development near Asheville of a residential subdivision of his property to be known as Grovemont-on-Swannanoa. He laid off alleys and streets, had some of them paved, installed lines for water and sewage, and represented to the plaintiff, as an inducement to her purchase of a lot, that the village should be modern, and that he and his representatives would maintain the alleys, streets, water and sewer system, parks and squares, and shrubbery and grass for the benefit of the residents and owners of…