Iglehart v. Jenifer

This is an appeal from a decree passed by Judge Walter R. Haile sitting in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, sustaining the appellee’s demurrer and dismissing the appellant’s bill of complaint. The sole question presented is did the appellant’s right of first refusal to purchase certain real estate terminate upon the death of the optionor. 1

In his bill of complaint Joseph A. W. Iglehart, the appellant, alleged the following: (1) on July 30, 1968, he and the late lima M. Jenifer entered into an agreement by which she granted unto Iglehart the right of first refusal or option to purchase…