GARLAND v. CARNES

46492.

259 Ga. 263 (1989)

379 S.E.2d 782

GARLAND v. CARNES et al.

Supreme Court of Georgia.

Decided June 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cornwell, Church & Healy, James E. Cornwell, Jr., for appellant.

J. Michael Brown, for appellees.


HUNT, Justice.

Garland brought this action against the Carnes to enforce a subdivision's restrictive covenant providing:

No mobile home or trailers and buildings with metal roofs or metal siding or no complete concrete block buildings shall be placed on the property. [Emphasis supplied.]

The trial court found the covenant ambiguous in that the prepositional phrase "with metal roofs or metal siding," could be read to describe either (1) only...

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