Baker v. Lunde
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to restrain the defendants from building a dwelling-house, designed to be occupied by two families, upon a lot in the city of New Haven, in alleged violation of a right in the nature of an easement claimed by the plaintiffs as owners of neighboring lots, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a motion to dissolve the temporary injunction was denied (Greene, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Kellogg, J.; facts found and judgment…
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Action to restrain the defendants from building a dwelling-house, designed to be occupied by two families, upon a lot in the city of New Haven, in alleged violation of a right in the nature of an easement claimed by the plaintiffs as owners of neighboring lots, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County where a motion to dissolve the temporary injunction was denied (Greene, J.) and the cause was afterward tried to the court, Kellogg, J.; facts found and judgment rendered for the plaintiffs for a permanent injunction, and appeal by the defendants. On August 16th, 1915, Israel Gordon et…
1Opinion of the CourtCurtis, J.
The court did not find that Gordon et al. divided their land in the square into lots on a map made public, under a plan disclosed thereon or therewith to develop the property as a restricted residential district, to be secured by a covenant, embodying the restrictions, to be inserted in each deed to a purchaser, which covenants appear by the writings or surrounding circumstances to be intended for the benefit of all the land, and that each purchaser is to be subject to and have the benefit of the restrictions, and that such a covenant was to be inserted in all deeds of the land. Therefore…
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- Bowen v. SmithNew Jersey Court of Chancery · 1909
- Wiegman v. KuselIllinois Supreme Court · 1915
- Jewell v. LeeMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Goodwin v. HamersleySupreme Court of Connecticut · 1897
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