Cornish v. O'DONOGHUE
| Decision Date | 04 February 1929 |
| Docket Number | No. 4666.,4666. |
| Citation | 58 App. DC 359,30 F.2d 983 |
| Parties | CORNISH et al. v. O'DONOGHUE et al. |
| Court | U.S. Court of Appeals — District of Columbia Circuit |
Wm. E. Leahy, George E. C. Hayes, Ernest J. Davis, all of Washington, D. C., and Louis Marshall, of New York City, for appellants.
Jesse C. Adkins, Frank F. Nesbit, and Lucien H. Mercier, all of Washington, D. C., for appellees.
Before MARTIN, Chief Justice, and ROBB and VAN ORSDEL, Associate Justices.
This appeal is from a decree of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia declaring a conveyance of lot 63, square 3125, property No. 2328 First Street N. W., in this city, from one Thomas A. Grier to appellants, defendants below, Henry A. Cornish and Alyce N. Cornish, void; and enjoining the defendants to remove themselves and their personal property from said premises.
The bill avers, in substance, that the appellees, plaintiffs below, are owners of various designated lots in square 3125, and occupy the same as their residences; that prior to June 26, 1927, one Gruver, was the record owner of lot 63, the house being one of a row of 17 houses which comprised all the buildings on the west side of First street between Adams and Bryant streets; that these houses were built about the year 1904 by Middaugh and Shannon; and that in 1905 they built 17 more houses on the east side of First street in the same block; that all these houses were sold by Middaugh and Shannon, including the property owned by Gruver, the deeds to which were recorded and contained the following covenant running with the land: "That said lot shall never be rented, leased, sold, transferred, or conveyed unto any negro or colored person under penalty of $2,000, which shall be a lien against said property."
It is further averred in the bill that all the dwellings in block 3125 were occupied and used exclusively as residences by persons of the Caucasian race, with the exception of the property occupied by the defendants; that on January 26, 1927, Gruver entered into an agreement to sell lot 63 to one Thomas A. Grier, and in the contract of sale it was provided: "It is understood and agreed by both parties that the purchaser, Mr. Thomas A. Grier, is white, and of the Caucasian race, and that he has purchased this property for his own home, and that he will occupy said property himself for his home, and that it is sold subject to the covenants of record; otherwise this...
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