RANEY v. TOMPKINS

[No. 70, October Term, 1950.]

197 Md. 98 (1951)

78 A.2d 183

RANEY ET UX. v. TOMPKINS ET UX.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 17, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James H. Pugh, for appellants.

L. Vernon Miller, with whom were Albert M. Bouic and William V. Bouic, on the brief, for appellees.

The cause was argued before MARBURY, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS, GRASON, HENDERSON and MARKELL, JJ.


HENDERSON, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The question raised in this appeal is whether a restrictive covenant in a deed, against the use of land retained by the grantors for purposes of a gasoline filling station, is enforceable by the grantees against assignees of the grantors. Summarizing the material facts, it appears that on March 20, 1942 George C. Shoemaker and wife, the owners of a triangular parcel of land in Montgomery County, known as Triangule...

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