Burns v. Beckenhauer

The parties hereto own and occupy adjacent lake front properties. Their chains of title trace back to common grantors named Edwin and Margaret Bennett, husband and wife. In the Bennett deed given in 1933 to plaintiffs’ predecessor in title there was inserted after the granting clause and before the habendum clause the following language:

“It is expressly agreed that the premises hereby transferred shall be used for private occupancy only; that no buildings to be erected on said lands shall be used otherwise than as a private dwelling house and such outbuildings at the rear of said dwelling as…