Mayers v. Ridley

OPINION AND ORDER

CORCORAN, District Judge.

I

Plaintiffs are home owners in the District of Columbia whose deeds to their homes, recorded with the D. C. Recorder of Deeds, contain a racially restrictive covenant. They have brought this suit as a class action against the Recorder of Deeds and the Mayor-Commissioner of the District of Columbia on their own behalf and on behalf of all home owners in the District of Columbia whose deeds to property include like covenants. They seek to enjoin the Recorder from accepting for filing any instrument which contains a racially restrictive covenant, and…