GOSPEL SPREADING ASS'N v. BENNETTS

No. 8837.

147 F.2d 878 (1945)

GOSPEL SPREADING ASS'N, Inc., et al. v. BENNETTS et al.

United States Court of Appeals District of Columbia.

Decided January 29, 1945.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Messrs. James A. Cobb and George E. C. Hayes, both of Washington, D. C., for appellant Gospel Spreading Association, Inc.

Mr. Edmund D. Campbell, of Washington, D. C., for appellant Stone Construction Company, Inc.

Mr. Henry Gilligan, of Washington, D. C., for appellees.

Before GRONER, Chief Justice, and MILLER and EDGERTON, Associate Justices.


GRONER, C. J.

This is a companion case to Mays v. Burgess, ___ App.D.C. ___, 147 F.2d 869, No. 8831, decided today. This case involves the validity of a restrictive race covenant in a deed to real estate and in both the land is located in the same general neighborhood in Washington City. There is, however, a difference in the language of the covenants in the two cases. In No. 8831 the provision...

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