Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1939

Bass v. . Hunter

Bass v. . Hunter
Supreme Court of North Carolina · Decided November 22, 1939 · Stacy
5 S.E.2d 558; 216 N.C. 505; 1939 N.C. LEXIS 28 (South Eastern Reporter, Second Series)

Bass v. . Hunter

Opinion of the Court

Stacy, C. J.

The question for decision is whether the restrictions in. defendant’s paper chain of title are enforceable under the rule applied in Johnston v. Garrett, 190 N. C., 835, 130 S. E., 835, and McLeskey v. Heinlein, 200 N. C., 290, 156 S. E., 489, or unenforceable according tO' the principle announced in Starkey v. Gardner, 194 N. C., 74, 138 S. E., 408, 54 A. L. R., 806; Higgins v. Hough, 195 N. C., 652, 143 S. E., 212; Stroupe v. Truesdell, 196 N. C., 303, 145 S. E., 925; Snyder v. Caldwell, 207 N. C., 626, 178 S. E., 83; Elrod v. Phillips, 214 N. C., 472, 199 S. E., 722.

We think the case is controlled by the decisions in the latter line-Indeed, it is patterned after the Elrod case, supra, which involved a lot in the same vicinity though, not in the same subdivision. The findings are supported by the evidence, and the court’s conclusion is a sequitur under the applicable decisions. Annotations: 85 A. L. R., 985; 54 A. L. R., 812. See, also, as obliquely pertinent, the case of Humphrey v. Beall, 215 N. C., 15, 200 S. E., 918.

Affirmed.

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