Downs v. Kroeger

Plaintiffs instituted this action for a permanent injunction to restrain defendant from completing a store building upon lot 27, block 9, in tract 2072, commonly known as Wellington Square, situate in the city of Los Angeles, said tract consisting of approximately eight contiguous blocks, forming a rectangular-shaped area containing 397 lots. In the year 1912 it was subdivided and laid out for residential purposes, restrictive covenants running with the land being inserted in all deeds by which parts of said tract were conveyed, prohibiting until the year 1960 the construction of any…