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Wykeham Rise, LLC v. Federer et al.

Posted 2018
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The trial court held that the covenants were not a statutory conservation easement because neither WRS nor the Federers were 'a charitable corporation whose purposes include conservation of land or water areas,' as required by the enabling statute.

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