Cowling v. Colligan

This class suit was brouht by R. E. Cowling and some seventeen other owners of lots in Post Oak Gardens Subdivision, an addition to the City of Houston, against Mrs. R. M. Colligan as owner and J. Terry Falkenbury as tenant or lessee of Tract No. 2 in the subdivision. The purpose of the suit was to obtain a declaratory judgment that certain restrictive covenants, and particularly a covenant restricting use of the lots in the subdivision “for residence purposes only” were still valid, binding and enforceable restrictions on the use of all lots or tracts in the subdivision and to enjoin the…