1. Restrictions upon real estate are not looked upon with favor by a court of equity, and restrictive agreements are enforced only when and so far as they are clear with respect to the restrictions which they purport to impose.
2. Restrictions upon the use of land are always to be construed strictly, and ambiguities and uncertainties are to be resolved in favor of the owner's unrestricted use of the land.
3. Equity does not aid one to restrict another in the use to which he may put his land, unless the right to such aid is clear, and where there is doubt as to the right, equitable relief will be denied.
4. Restrictive provisions in a contract with respect to building lots sold, relative to the type and cost of buildings that could be erected on them, and the location of such buildings, held, not clear enough to warrant granting an injunction in the case sub judice, at the instance of another lot owner, against the erection of a five-story apartment house on adjoining lots.
PER CURIAM.
The decree-order appealed from will be affirmed, for the reasons stated in the opinion filed in the court below by Vice-Chancellor Buchanan.
For affirmance — THE CHIEF-JUSTICE, TRENCHARD, PARKER, MINTURN, KALISCH, BLACK, KATZENBACH, CAMPBELL, LLOYD, VAN BUSKIRK, McGLENNON, KAYS, HETFIELD, DEAR, JJ. 14.
For reversal — None.