Martin v. Weinberg

This appeal is from a decree permanently enjoining the appellants from using lots 27 and 28, Block 0, Murray Hill, in the City of Annapolis, for a parking lot. The question turns on the validity and enforceability of certain restrictions in the deeds.

In 1890, the owners of nine of the ten tracts into which a larger tract had been divided by the heirs of James Murray, subdivided these tracts into lots according to a plat known as “Melvin’s plan of Murray -Hill”, which was placed on record in 1896. In 1914, four exchange deeds, which further partitioned certain of the lots among some of the…