Crane v. Hathaway

Buchanan, Y. C.

Complainants sue to restrain an alleged violation by defendant of a community scheme restrictive covenant, the two parties being adjoining lot owners. The covenant is “that only one dwelling-house and a private garage shall occupy this property” (i. e., each lot).

There was originally on defendant’s lot a one-and-a-half or two-story frame house or bungalow of five rooms—kitchen, dining-room, living-room and two bedrooms. To this she has joined two two-room “shacks” so as to make the whole consolidated physical structure under one continuous roof, the result being the addition of…