Supreme Court of Rhode Island March 7, 2011, 2009-224-Appeal (Cullen v. Tarini)

OPINION

Chief Justice SUTTELL,

for the Court.

A landowner’s efforts to protect his “spectacular” ocean views underlie this appeal. More specifically, we are asked to address the enforceability of restrictive covenants against a neighboring landowner, notwithstanding the neighbor’s expenditure of over $1 million to construct a house that violates the restrictions in several key respects.