Wolff v. Gibney

ARCHIBALD, Justice.

This is a jury waived case seeking equitable relief in which a Justice of the Superior Court ordered the defendant, Harriet C. Gibney, to execute and deliver to the plaintiffs a so-called “first refusal option” on her present home in Bar Harbor. However, since the plaintiffs’ complaint sought an immediate conveyance to them of the fee in this real property, they have appealed.

We deny the appeal.

Although the record is confusing, the facts, devoid of technicalities, may be reduced to these. In 1970 the defendant and her then husband owned a dwelling house which was situated…