Akers v. Butler

|,The appellants in this case are twenty-one property owners who filed a “Verified Petition for Temporary Restraining Order and Permanent Injunction” against appel-lees, Angie and Darrell Butler, in April 2014. The petition alleged the Butlers were violating the “Land Use and Architectural Controls” of the Forest Ridge Estates subdivision by using their property for commercial purposes. The Butlers moved to dismiss or, alternatively, answered and counterclaimed for declaratory judgment. Later in the case, the Butlers filed a motion for summary judgment, seeking dismissal of the cause of…