Webb v. Reames

GOOLSBY, Judge:

Vivian O. Webb filed this declaratory judgment action to determine the validity of a right of first refusal contained in a deed by which Webb’s late husband, John R. Webb, acquired from B.B. Blease an approximate one-half acre of lake property in Lexington County. The respondents B. Meredith Blease, Nikki Blease, and Connie Blease Reames are B.B. Blease’s heirs. The principal question on appeal concerns whether the right of first refusal violates the rule against perpetuities. Other questions involve certain affirmative defenses. The trial court held the challenged right did…