Shiver v. Benton

Clarke, Justice.

We granted an application to appeal an interlocutory order denying summary judgment to the defendants-appellants in an action involving the enforcement of a right of first refusal agreement entered into by tenants in common who own in fee a large tract of marble land in Pickens County. The land is now under lease to appellant, Georgia Marble Company, and has been leased for approximately 100 years. The present lease will expire in 1984. This dispute arose when Shiver, one of the cotenants executed a contract to sell her three-sixteenth interest in the property to Georgia…