Dahl v. Hartman

OPINION

PAUL C. MURPHY, Chief Justice.

This appeal is taken from the trial court’s dismissal of Ted E. Dahl’s declaratory judgment action against Spring Branch Estates II Civic Association (“the Association”) and members of the Spring Branch Estates Petition Committee (“the Committee”) after Dahl failed to serve all necessary parties to this suit pursuant to the trial court’s order.

Spring Branch Estates II is a deed-restricted community platted in 1949. The deed restrictions designated the subdivision a single-family residential community and prohibited the commercial use of subdivision…