B & C Management Vermont, Inc. v. John

¶ 1.

Skoglund, J.

Tenant appeals the court’s order granting summary judgment in favor of defendant landlords on the parties’ dispute concerning a rental-increase provision of the lease. On appeal, tenant argues that the court erred in using extrinsic evidence to interpret a portion of the lease tenant believes is unambiguous, and in reaching an inequitable result. We affirm.

¶ 2. The basic facts are not disputed. Tenant is the successor lessee to a thirty-year lease on a commercial property in Brattleboro. The lease was executed in 1987. The lease established *204a basic annual rent of $26,500 in…