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· 1/15/1974

Gulf Oil Corp. v. Fall River Housing Authority

Citations

  • 306 N.E.2d 257
  • 364 Mass. 492
  • 1974 Mass. LEXIS 585

How courts have described this case

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

  • restriction intended “to assure the orderly and mutually beneficial development of [an] entire area” was of actual and substantial benefit to the plaintiffs
  • “landowner’s motive does not affect his right to enforce a restriction”
  • owner of gas station entitled to injunction barring another from building a gas station where restriction was not a personal covenant against competition, but clearly was intended to benefit plaintiff owner by protecting the physical use of plaintiffs property
  • where covenant against competition touched and concerned land

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Judges: Tauro, Reardon, Quirico, Braucher, Hennessey

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