Salter v. Beatty

Specific performance by a vendor against vendee. In 1892 one DeWitt, then owner of thirteen acres, plotted the tract into building lots, some of which face on Douglass road, Glen Ridge, and imposed a restriction confining structures to residences, and that they should set back from the street fifty feet. The covenant was incorporated in the deed of the common grantor for all lots fronting on Douglass road, and the owners have abided by its terms with the exception of the original purchaser of the lot here involved. In 1895 he built a house on his lot which extends three feet over the…