Lange v. Scofield

This is an appeal from a judgment entered in favor of the plaintiff, Patricia Scofield, and against the defendant, Kathryn Lange, in an action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the enforcement of restrictive covenants encumbering a residential lot that Scofield owns in Mountain Brook.1 The trial court declared the covenants unenforceable, thereby allowing Scofield to build a house on her property.

The property owned by Scofield and that owned by Lange were originally owned by the Wofford Bond and Mortgage Company and Carrie Wofford ("Wofford"). In 1928 Wofford subdivided a large…