Boehner v. Briggs

How courts have described this case

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

• stating the rule of construction that ambiguities are “resolved in favor of less restrictive uses of the property”
• rejecting interpretation of \a one family dwelling\ restriction to permit only. a single structure with four walls as overly narrow
• restriction to a \one-family dwelling\ did not control the architecture of that dwelling, and the covenant was not violated where there was no evidence that more than one family would live in the dwelling
• one family dwelling restriction prohibited multi-family dwelling

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).