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114 Reach

114 Reach (Property · The complaint alleges that the residence has a solar) — "114 to reach an agreement on the location of defendant’s home before defendant s…

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  • The court evaluates the plaintiff’s construction dispute and the legal sufficiency of the complaint.
  • The dispute concerns the location and grade of the defendant’s home.
  • The parties sought to reach an agreement on the home’s location before construction began.
  • The Architectural Control Committee and the City of Muskego Planning Commission approved the plans, including the home’s location.
  • After approval, the defendant apparently changed the property’s grade without prior notice to the Architectural Control Committee.
  • The plaintiff’s concern arose from the combination of the property’s grade and the home’s distance from the lot line.
  • The circuit court denied injunctive relief and ultimately entered judgment for the defendant.
  • The basis of the judgment was ambiguous.
  • The court first examined whether the complaint was legally sufficient.
  • The court also considered whether matters outside the pleadings created disputed material facts requiring a trial.
  • For purposes of testing the complaint, the plaintiff’s pleaded facts and all reasonable inferences were accepted as true.
  • The pleadings were liberally construed to promote substantial justice between the parties.
  • The complaint could be dismissed as legally insufficient only when it was quite clear that the plaintiff could not recover under any circumstances.
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"114 to reach an agreement on the location of defendant’s home before defendant started construction. The Architectural Control Committee and the Planning Commission of the City of Muskego approved the defendant’s plans for his home, including its location on the lot. After such approval, the defendant apparently changed the grade of the property without prior notice to the Architectural Control Committee. The problem with defendant’s proposed construction, as far as the plaintiff’s interests are concerned, arises from a combination of the grade and the distance of defendant’s home from the defendant’s lot line. The circuit court denied plaintiff’ s motion for injunctive relief, declared it would entertain a motion for summary judgment and thereafter entered judgment in favor of the defendant. II. … . In this case there is some ambiguity whether the judgment was based on the complaint or on factual matters outside the pleadings which were presented to the circuit court in connection with the motion for a temporary injunction. Consequently, we shall first test the sufficiency of the complaint and then determine whether the matters outside the pleadings present disputed material facts sufficient to justify a trial. III. In testing the sufficiency of the complaint the facts pleaded by the plaintiff, and all reasonable inferences therefrom, are accepted as true. The pleadings are to be liberally construed with a view to substantial justice to the parties, and the complaint should be dismissed as legally insufficient only if “it is quite clear that under no circumstances can the plaintiff recover.” … ."

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