Hewatt v. Leppert

How courts have described this case

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• construing the “language of the first refusal clause” to determine that a right of first refusal was not triggered
• option contract’s execution did not trigger the right of first refusal, the parties having agreed that the landlord’s receipt of an acceptable offer would trigger the right
• right of first refusal to match the conditions of a third party’s “acceptable offer”
• option holder may force sale at any time during option
• \When a lease contains a right of first refusal clause the landlord 'is under a legal duty to [the tenant] not to sell to anybody at any price until after he has made an offer to sell to [the tenant] at that price and [the tenant] has failed to accept it.' \ (emphasis in original
• “When a lease contains a right of first refusal clause the landlord ‘is under a legal duty to [the tenant] not to sell to anybody at any price until after he has made an offer to sell to [the tenant] at that price and [the tenant] has failed to accept it.’” (emphasis in original

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).