Hardy v. Krutzfeldt

Mary Jane Hardy, Mary Joan Fox, Dan Fox, and L. 0. Ranch Co., plaintiffs, and Robert John Hardy and Barbara Ann Hardy, defendants, appeal from a judgment of the District Court of the Sixteenth Judicial District, Custer County, granting summary judgment in favor of the other defendants and refusing to adjudge that the right of first refusal in an agreement between the parties was invalid.

The issue here is whether an agreement providing for a right of refusal before property is offered for sale is void as constituting an unreasonable restraint on alienation and against public policy.

We hold…