Loeb v. Watkins

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

The problem in this case is simply one of reading the English language, and importing meaning, plus enforceability, to its simple and plain words.

On. March 18, 1922, a six-block tract of land in Philadelphia was divided by court decree into 31 parcels, numbered 1 to 31 inclusive. The owners entered into a restrictive agreement, duly recorded in the office of the recorder of deeds, which said, inter alia: “. . . there shall not at any time hereafter be erected or built on any of the thirty-one (31) lots or pieces of ground as shown by the said plan more than two…