Keene v. Elkhart County Park & Recreation Board

How courts have described this case

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• holding that remote grantee was bound by covenant running with the land despite the fact that the remote grantee did not enjoy the same significant benefit as the original grantee
• holding that remote grantee was bound by covenant running with the land despite the fact that the remote grantee did not enjoy the same significant benefit as the original grantee
• holding that a covenant, which was in a 1924 deed, to “construct and forever maintain a proper bridge” over a canal and that would “provide safe and secure crossing over said canal for all farming operations” was a covenant running with the land
• holding that a covenant, which was in a 1924 deed, to “construct and forever maintain a proper bridge” over a canal and that would “provide safe and secure crossing over said canal for all farming operations” was a covenant running with the land
• defining a covenant running with the land as a “covenant intimately and inherently involved with the land and therefore binding subsequent owners and successor grantees indefinitely”
• favoring a construction that “reconciles and harmonizes the entire deed”

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