Turnley v. Garfinkel

This was a suit for a declaratory judgment. Complainants, owners of a lot in a residential subdivision, divided it into two lots and contracted to sell one of them to defendants Garfinkel and wife, wlio propose to build a dwelling on it. To this, defendants Talbot and wife, owners of another lot in the subdivision, objected that it would violate the restrictive covenants protecting all the lots. Complainants sought a decree to determine the controversy.

To the bill the Talbots filed a demurrer, which was overruled, and the ease was heard upon the bill, the answers of defendants, and a…