Ernst Home Center, Inc. v. Sato

*475Kennedy, A.C.J.

Following a bench trial, John Sato and Victor Loehrer1 (collectively, the landlord) appeal the determination that they breached their lease with Ernst Home Center, Inc. (Ernst), by unreasonably refusing to consent to Ernst assigning its lease of commercial space at Wheaton Mall in East Bremerton to Value Village. The landlord argues that the trial court applied an improper standard in determining whether consent was "unreasonably” withheld, that the tenant’s request for consent was premature because no formal assignment was presented to the landlord, that evidentiary errors…