THIEL v. GOYINGS

Docket No. 156708.

939 N.W.2d 152 (2019)

504 Mich. 484

Matthew T. THIEL and Nikole M. Thiel, Plaintiffs/Counterdefendants-Appellees, and William Traywick and Marcia Traywick, Intervening Plaintiffs/Counterdefendants-Appellees, v. David L. GOYINGS and Helen M. Goyings, Defendants/Counter-plaintiffs-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 24, 2019.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dykema Gossett PLLC (by Todd C. Schebor , Bloomfield Hills , Krista L. Lenart , and Jill Wheaton , Ann Arbor ) for Matthew T. Thiel, Nikole M. Thiel, William Traywick, and Marcia Traywick.

Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, Kalamazoo (by James E. Spurr and Paul D. Hudson ) for David L. Goyings and Helen M. Goyings.

Bush Seyferth & Paige PLLC (by Michael R. Williams and Brittney D. Kohn ) for Amicus Curiae, the Modular Home Builders Association.

BEFORE THE ENTIRE BENCH.


OPINION

David and Helen Goyings designed and built a retirement home on a lakefront lot. Their neighbors insist that the Goyingses violated the subdivision's restrictive covenants that bar "pre-fabricated or modular home[s]" (along with mobile homes, berm-houses, geodesic domes, shacks, and barns) and that they must tear...

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