 He died October 15, 1997 in Silver Spring, Maryland.Indritz is most well known for representing the plaintiff in "Hurd v. Hodge" in front of the Supreme Court in 1948, alongside Charles Hamilton Houston.The case, which was decided along with "Shelley v. Kraemer", resulted in the court ruling that race-based restrictive property covenants were unconstitutional, a significant civil rights ruling six years before the "Brown v. Board of Education" case.