Finkelstein v. Southampton Civic Club

OPINION

DUGGAN, Justice.

This is a suit to enforce deed restrictions. The question presented is whether, consistent with valid deed restrictions, a residential corner lot owner in Southampton Place, an addition to the City of Houston, may subdivide an original corner lot into two smaller residential lots, only one of which thereafter abuts the front street, so that the existing improvements on each of the resulting smaller lots may thereafter be used as separate single family dwellings.

Plaintiffs-Appellees, Southampton Civic Club, an unincorporated civic association, and five resident owners of…