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Real Property - Easements - Implied Easement Of Access , Created By Conveyance With Reference To Plat, As Surviving Vacation Of Street, Allen Dewey Apr 1957

Real Property - Easements - Implied Easement Of Access , Created By Conveyance With Reference To Plat, As Surviving Vacation Of Street, Allen Dewey

Michigan Law Review

Plaintiff sued to recover his deposit and search fee on a contract for the purchase of lands, a valuable part of which lay within the limits of two vacated streets. He contended the title was unmarketable because all owners of lands conveyed with reference to a plat showing these streets had by those conveyances acquired easements of access which survived the subsequent vacation of the streets by municipal authorities. The vacated streets had never been used and there were no physical indicia of them. Evidence showed all the lots on the map had access to the public highway system without …


Eminent Domain - Restrictive Covenants - Compensability Of Equitable Servitudes, Thomas A. Troyer Apr 1957

Eminent Domain - Restrictive Covenants - Compensability Of Equitable Servitudes, Thomas A. Troyer

Michigan Law Review

During appellee sanitation district's negotiations for the purchase of a tract of land owned by one Peterson, the eighteen appellants and thirty-seven other owners of land in the vicinity of Peterson's tract executed with Peterson and each other reciprocal covenants whereby each party agreed that his land should be restricted to certain uses, the use contemplated by appellee for Peterson's land being specifically excluded. When appellee and Peterson failed to reach an agreement in their negotiations and appellee filed a petition for condemnation of the land, appellants presented a cross-petition to the trial court, requesting that they be allowed to …


Municipal Corporations - Zoning - Exclusion Of Churches From Residential Area, William R. Luney S.Ed. Feb 1957

Municipal Corporations - Zoning - Exclusion Of Churches From Residential Area, William R. Luney S.Ed.

Michigan Law Review

In two recent New York cases churches sought permits to use residential property for church purposes, including worship, social gatherings, construction of an adjacent parking lot, and, in one case, establishment of a school and playground. In each case the zoning board denied the permit on grounds that a church would change the residential character of the neighborhood, decrease the enjoyment of neighboring property, depreciate property values, and that the contemplated use of the property for other than worship was prohibited by the ordinance. The lower court upheld the decisions of both zoning boards. On appeal to the New York …


The Granting Of Variances From The Zoning Ordinance By The Lexington-Fayette County Board Of Adjustment, Wayne J. Carroll Jan 1957

The Granting Of Variances From The Zoning Ordinance By The Lexington-Fayette County Board Of Adjustment, Wayne J. Carroll

Kentucky Law Journal

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Sanctions Against Governmental Violations Of Planning And Zoning Ordinances, Frank Edward Horack Jr. Jan 1957

Sanctions Against Governmental Violations Of Planning And Zoning Ordinances, Frank Edward Horack Jr.

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Jurisdiction Of Zoning Boards, Beauchamp E. Brogan Jan 1957

Jurisdiction Of Zoning Boards, Beauchamp E. Brogan

Kentucky Law Journal

No abstract provided.