Robertson v. Nichols

Plaintiffs and appellants, purchasers of five lots in the “Henry J. Brown Wilshire Terrace Tract” in the city of Los Angeles, upon which they desired to erect apartment houses, brought an action to quiet title and for declaratory relief against some of (but not all) the owners of other property in the tract, seeking to have set aside restrictions to single family residence purposes which had been placed on all the lots in the tract by the original subdivider. The trial court upheld the restrictions and entered judgment accordingly, from which judgment this appeal is prosecuted.

The…