In re Estate of Stevens, 2012 Ohio 1860 (Ohio Ct. App. 2012)

(decedent's will gave executor (friend of decedent) option to buy decedent's farmland for $3,000/acre if notice to exercise option given within 30 days of appointment as executor and option exercised within 45 days after notice given; option to lapse if not timely exercised; specification given as to how option to be exercised; notice given and option exercised four days after will admitted to probate and executor appointed;  granddaughter opposed executor's intent to proceed with administration of estate on basis that executor failed to comply with option period in will which (she claimed) required real estate transaction to be completed within 45 days of notice; court disagreed, noting that will was silent as to time of closing of transaction, but plainly did not require transaction to be completed within 45 days; intent to complete occurred within reasonable time after death (8 months); court affirmed trial court order that estate proceed with administration and complete real estate transaction at issue).