Prest v. Ross

The plaintiff owns and occupies as a dwelling house the premises numbered 165 on Bay State Road, while the defendant owns the premises numbered 167 and 169. The houses are built on substantially similar plans, each house having on every story, except the basement and attic, a "bay window in front and in the rear. The several estates were subject to certain restrictions created by a common grantor which the master states “ were imposed for the purpose of establishing a fine residential district,” and so far as material they are as follows:

“ 1st — No buildings other than dwelling-houses (which…