Summers v. Beeler
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County (Stake, J.) The restriction in the original deeds of both plaintiff’s and defendant’s lots is as follows: “ Provided, however, that if the said” grantee, “his heirs, devisees or assigns, shall construct or cause to be constructed upon the lot of ground hereby conveyed any dwelling-house or building or other improvements, such dwelling-house, building or other improvement shall not be located, built or constructed upon said…
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Appeal from the Circuit Court for Washington County (Stake, J.) The restriction in the original deeds of both plaintiff’s and defendant’s lots is as follows: “ Provided, however, that if the said” grantee, “his heirs, devisees or assigns, shall construct or cause to be constructed upon the lot of ground hereby conveyed any dwelling-house or building or other improvements, such dwelling-house, building or other improvement shall not be located, built or constructed upon said lot closer to the west marginal line of the lot hereby conveyed than a line running parallel thereto and bounding the…
1Opinion of the CourtPea.rce, J.
This is a bill in equity filed by the appellants to restrain the appellees from erecting upon their own premises, adjoining those of the appellants, a bay-window, in violation, as the appellants claim, of restrictions contained in conveyances for their respective premises from a common vendor, to whom their titles are traced through mesne conveyances. A preliminary injunction was granted, and was dissolved upon hearing, and thereupon this appeal was taken.
Rev. C. L. Keedy, being the owner of a tract of land in Hagerstown, on the east side of Mulberry street, laid out the tract into…
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