Johnson v. Jones
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 226, Jan. T., 1913, by plaintiff, from decree of C. P. No. 3, Philadelphia Co., March T., 1913, No. 1931, dismissing bill in equity for an injunction in case of W. Percival Johnson v. Lewis Jones and Daniel Crawford, Jr. Bill in equity to enforce a building restriction. Before Davis, J. The opinion of the Supreme Court states the facts. The court on hearing on bill and answer dismissed the bill. Plaintiff appealed. Error assigned was. the decree of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Mb. Justice Stewaet,
William F. Harrity and Lewis Jones, the latter one of these appellees, were respectively owners of several large unimproved lots of ground fronting on Oxford, *388Nassau ¿nd Sixty-ninth streets in the City of Philadelphiá. With a view to having their said lands improved and developed in a way that whatever buildings or structures might be erected thereon should harmonize and tend to beautify the general neighborhood and advance values, they mutually covenanted that neither would at any time thereafter sell or convey any part of the premises severally owned by them…
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