Legal Opinion
Hurd v. Hodge
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 3, 1948No. 290PublishedCited by 333 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Vinson
These are companion cases to Shelley v. Kraemer and McGhee v. Sipes, ante, p. 1, and come to this Court on certiorari to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
In 1906, twenty of thirty-one lots in the 100 block of Bryant Street, Northwest, in the City of Washington, were sold subject to the following covenant:. . that said lot shall never be rented, leased, sold, transferred or conveyed unto any Negro or colored person, under a penalty of Two Thousand Dollars ($2,000), which shall be a lien against said property.”
The covenant imposes no time limitation on the…
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