Minshall v. Pettit

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Day.

This writ of error was directed to the action of the trial court in granting a temporary injunction whereby the plaintiffs in error were precluded for the time being (in order to preserve the status quo) from erecting a multiple unit apartment house in a subdivision which, in its inception, contained restrictive covenants as to each of the building sites prohibiting the erection of any improvements thereon save single family dwellings.

Had the parties limited themselves to the issue of whether the temporary injunction should be granted to preserve the status quo…