Tristram's Group, Inc. v. Morrow

Tristram’s Landing, Inc. (predecessor of the plaintiff, The Tristram’s Group, Inc.), then the owner and developer of the Tristram’s Landing subdivision in Nantucket, by deed dated September 30, 1968, conveyed lot 275 to the defendant, Morrow. The price was $6,000. The deed was recorded on October 18, 1968, and the Nantucket Registry District issued to the defendant Certificate of Title No. 5655 with the defendant, Morrow, as registered owner.

The deed carried seventeen “deed restrictions” dealing with restrictions on use and other things, of which the fourteenth read as follows:

“14. If a…