Court Opinion

ID: 9828681
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 18:37:02.411966+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:42:51.771247
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
The statement in our original opinion that none of the duplex or apartment buildings erected in the restricted district prior to the institution of this suit “were in any of the blocks or on the street on which appellees’ property is situated” is inaccurate, in that the evidence shows that a four-room apartment house had been erected in block 46, which is in the block in which the residences of three of the appellees are situated. This apartment house is behind the residence of the appellees situated in this block, fronts on a back street, has the appearance of a private residence, is not shown to have in any way interfered with the enjoyment by ap-pellees of their homes, or rendered such homes less valuable or desirable as residences. Such former violation of the restrictive covenant in the deeds to their property being trivial in character as compared with that of which appellees now complain, the appellees’ failure to prevent it cannot, upon any sound principle of law or equity, be held a waiver by them of the covenant in their deed, or estop them from asserting their right to protect their homes against the damage which will be caused by appellants’ construction of their apartment building.
After duly considering the motion for rehearing, we adhere to the conclusions expressed in our original opinion, and refuse the motion.