Belliveau v. O'COIN

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This matter comes before the Supreme Court on the plaintiffs’ appeal from a judgment for the defendants in the Providence County Superior Court. The plaintiffs, Sandra L. Belliveau, Ronald L. Belliveau, and Belliveau Building Corporation, appeal a Superior Court decision enforcing the defendants’ exercise of a pre-emptive right of first refusal regarding the sale of real property owned by Sandra Belliveau. We reverse.

In 1979 defendants, William J. O’Coin, Jr., and Claire H. O’Coin, purchased a parcel of land in Cumberland, Rhode Island, and subdivided it into five lots.…