Lakeland Property Owners Ass'n v. Larson

How courts have described this case

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• stating that courts should not enforce covenant changes of which the owner did not have reasonable notice at the time he acquired the land
• recognizing that, “where a grantee has an easement which he shares with others, his duty to repair and maintain it must be apportioned with all other easement holders based upon the extent of the individuals’ use of the easement”
• recognizing that, “where a grantee has an easement which he shares with others, his duty to repair and maintain it must be apportioned with all other easement holders based upon the extent of the individuals’ use of the easement”
• holding that a deed’s provision, permitting “change[s] ... in whole or in part” to restrictive covenants upon majority vote, “clearly directs itself to changes of existing covenants, not the adding of new covenants which have no relation to existing ones” (emphasis added)
• holding that where a grantee takes title without clear notice in the current restrictive covenants that a majority of the lot owners may impose an assessment upon his property, the majority may not attempt to amend the covenants to impose such a burden
• holding that where a grantee takes title without clear notice in the current restrictive covenants that a majority of the lot owners may impose an assessment upon his property, the majority may not attempt to amend the covenants to impose such a burden

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).