Stratman v. Sheetz

This case came on to be heard upon an appeal from the Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County.

Defendant-appellant, Frank E. Sheetz, appeals from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiff-appellee, Joseph R. Stratman, Executor of the Estate of Gertrude G. Stratman, in an action to quiet title to real estate owned by the deceased. Sheetz presents two assignments of error in which he contends: (1) a 1967 agreement giving him a preemptive right to purchase the real estate does not, as the trial court held, violate the rule against perpetuities; and (2) his claim…