Bauer v. Harn

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• construing “invitees” as used in a restrictive covenant to include “social guests” of a neighborhood association and of its members
• recognizing a “social guest” as a “licensee”
• “Absent a challenge to the authority of an attorney to make them, stipulations are definitive of issues.”
• “We agree that restrictive covenants must be strictly construed against the party seeking enforcement, and that substantial doubt or ambiguity is to be resolved against the restrictions and in favor of the free use of property.”
• “[I]f it is apparent from a reading of the whole instrument that the restrictions carry a certain meaning by definite and necessary implication, then the thing denied may be said to be clearly forbidden, as if the language had been in positive terms of express inhibition.”
• “[I]f it is apparent from a reading of the whole instrument that the restrictions carry a certain meaning by definite and necessary implication, then the thing denied may be said to be clearly forbidden, as if the language had been in positive terms of express inhibition.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).