Martin v. Weinberg

How courts have described this case

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• contractual restrictions on land use are neither abrogated nor enlarged by zoning restrictions
• “Contractual restrictions are neither abrogated nor enlarged by zoning restrictions.”
• “We have frequently ... applied the rule of strict construction in favor of the unrestricted use of property. But this does not mean that language must be so narrowly construed as to defeat its general purpose.” (citations omitted)
• “Contractual restrictions are neither abrogated nor enlarged by zoning restrictions.”
• restrictive covenants should be given “a fair and reasonable construction”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).