Smith v. Mitchell

CARLTON, Justice.

I

The record reveals that in 1967 W.O. Smith, Jr., and his wife, Roberta K. Smith, placed certain restrictive covenants expressly running with the land on a plat of real property they owned in Caswell County. In addition to the usual covenants limiting development on the plat to residential dwellings of a certain size and environmental soundness, the Smiths’ duly recorded restrictive covenants included Article XIV. which provided:

If any future owner of lands herein described shall desire to sell the lands owned by him, he shall offer the parties of the first part the option to…