HAUGEN v. PETERSON

No. C8-85-2212.

400 N.W.2d 723 (1987)

Orrin M. HAUGEN, et al., Respondents, Richard M. Smith, Plaintiff, v. Muriel V. PETERSON, Petitioner, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Minnesota.

February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark D. Nyvold and Mark W. Peterson, Minneapolis, for appellant.

Steven D. Jamar, Henry H. Feikema, H. Gordon Taylor, Minneapolis, for respondents.

John R. Carroll, Best & Flanagan, Minneapolis, Richard Edblom, Hennepin Co. Examiner of Titles, Minneapolis, Thomas S. Erickson, Dorsey & Whitney, Minneapolis, Charles L. Horn, Faegre & Benson, Minneapolis, and James C. Uecker, Title Ins. Co. of Mn., Minneapolis, for amicus curiae.

Heard, considered, and decided by the court en banc.


YETKA, Justice.

This case comes before us on appeal from the court of appeals which enforced restrictive covenants on land owned by appellant, preventing her from constructing a new home on a lot created by subdividing her original lot. The court of appeals reversed the District Court of Hennepin County, which had held the restrictive covenants void by reason of Minn.Stat. § 500.20, subd. 2 (1980) (repealed 1982).1 We reverse the...

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