DeBlois v. Crosley Building Corp. of Maine, Inc.

The questions raised in this petition in equity are whether certain restrictions prohibiting the operation of a restaurant on land conveyed by plaintiffs are binding on defendant and whether plaintiffs’ right to use certain parking areas was lost by a failure to annually pay toward the cost of maintenance.

By deed dated 1966, plaintiffs, who owned and operated a restaurant in Allenstown, conveyed adjacent property to Pembroke Realty Trust for the building of a shopping plaza. The deed contained the following restrictions:

b) That no business shall be conducted or maintained on the land to be…