Riverview Community Group v. Spencer & Livingston

¶1 The Riverview Community Group, a collection of adjoining and neighboring property owners acting as a nonprofit corporation, sued its property’s developers for closing the golf course that had been the center of their development and sought to have the golf course reopened. The trial court directed that all of the area’s individual landowners be joined as necessary parties to the litigation under CR 19. The court also granted summary judgment and dismissed the action on the basis that equitable servitudes were not available in Washington unless created in writing. We reverse the court’s CR…