MICHAEL ABEL ET AL. v. CELESTE M. JOHNSON

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340 Conn. 240

Abel v. Johnson MICHAEL ABEL ET AL. v. CELESTE M. JOHNSON (SC 20436) Robinson, C. J., and McDonald, D’Auria, Kahn and Ecker, Js.* Syllabus The plaintiff property owners sought to enjoin the defendant, who owned abutting property on which she operated a landscaping business, from violating a restrictive covenant that limited the use of the defendant’s property to residential purposes only. The restrictive covenant was contained in a 1956 deed by which the original grantors conveyed a tract of real property to a…