Case Name: Charles E. Kapitzky v. H. W. Brown et al.
Court: Cuyahoga Circuit Court
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1911-12-04
Citations: 32 Ohio C.C. Dec. 464
Docket Number: 
Parties: Charles E. Kapitzky v. H. W. Brown et al.
Judges: Marvin, Winch and Henry, JJ.
Reporter: Ohio Circuit Court Decisions
Volume: 32
Pages: 464–464

Head Matter:
BUILDINGS — COVENANTS
[Cuyahoga (8th) Circuit Court,
December 4, 1911.]
Marvin, Winch and Henry, JJ.
Charles E. Kapitzky v. H. W. Brown et al.
Porch no Violation of Building Restrictions.
A porch built upon restricted territory is not a violation of a restriction that the main body of any dwelling-house to be erected upon a lot shall be back a given number of feet from the street line.
Appeal.
H. J. Doolittle and Hoyt, Dustin, Kelley, McKeehan & Andrews, for plaintiff.
C. W. Fuller and J. L. Gannon, for defendants.

Opinion:
WINCH,, J.
The plaintiff is not entitled to have Brown's side porch removed. Whatever restriction was originally placed by the Windermere Realty Co. in the deeds to the Euclid avenue lots cornering on Idlewood and Rosalind avenues, this restriction had been violated before Kapitzky bought, to his knowledge. He made no objection when the second violation occurred on Miller's lot. His suggestion that these violations were on the corners of Idlewood and did not affect his view on Rosalind, would be of some importance were it not for the specific statement in his own deed as to the nature of the restriction which would be made for his benefit when the Brown lot was sold; that agreement-was in accord with the condition apparent to him on the corner of Idlewood.
. We hold that the general scheme as to the corner lots, of which he is entitled to the benefit, is that, which he agreed to when he accepted his deed, to wit, that the main body of the dwelling-house to be erected on Brown's lot should be back at least twenty feet from the southwesterly line of Rosalind avenue. Brown's side porch, which encroaches upon this twenty feet, is not a violation of the general plan or scheme as thus expressed.
The petition will be dismissed.
Marvin and Henry, JJ., concur.