Eakers v. Clopton

This is an appeal by Fred Douglass Eakers, Ethel Lee Eakers, A. D. Fields, and Mrs. A. D. Fields, from a judgment rendered by the district court of Oklahoma county in favor of Ellen Clopton sustaining the validity of a property owners’ agreement restricting the north half of block 21 in Oak Park addition to Oklahoma City, against the sale to or occupancy of any of the lots by persons of Negro blood.

The contract upon which the action is brought was entered into in the year 1938. Among other things it provides that any deed, lease or conveyance in violation of the agreemént would be void and…