Bischoff v. Bletz

¶ 1. From the perspective of appellant Rodney Wdiite, these proceedings must seem Kafkaesque. Donald Bletz, Sr. and Bruce Van Guilder (“defendants”) appear to have repeatedly ignored his deeded right of first refusal while plaintiffs were somehow able to extinguish it despite the fact that they raised no claim against Wfiiite in their complaint, they were not parties to his deed, and they had constructive notice, if not actual notice, of Wdiite’s superior right before exercising their own purported “first option to buy” the subject properties. As discussed below, we vacate the trial court’s…