Ellis v. Waldrop

OPINION

HOLMAN, Justice.

This suit originated as a declaratory judgment action to construe a recorded agreement under which appellant claimed the first right of refusal to purchase a tract of land.

The action sought to remove cloud on the title by a determination that the land had not been sold until after appellant’s right had expired.

The tract was owned by appellant G. C. Waldrop and his late wife. Their son, appellant Thomas Coleman Waldrop, is trustee under his mother’s will.

G. C. Waldrop offered appellant the land, but failed to reach agreement and sold it to appellees Aghamalian and…