McHuron v. Grand Teton Lodge Company

The McHurons bought a subdivision lot subject to protective covenants requiring written approval from the Grand Teton Lodge Company's Architectural Review Committee (the committee) before altering any structure, with the covenants aimed at maintaining a general aesthetic scheme and expressly barring unreasonable disapproval. Years later, when the McHurons sought approval to install fiberglass roof shingles — unlike the cedar-shake shingles used throughout the rest of the neighborhood — the committee disapproved the request as aesthetically inconsistent, but the McHurons installed the fiberglass anyway. The committee then offered to let them keep the shingles if 80 percent of subdivision tenants agreed, which the McHurons could not obtain, and Grand Teton Lodge Company sued; the trial court found the committee's disapproval reasonable and ordered the shingles replaced, and the McHurons appealed.