Hicks v. Brookings Mall, Inc.

HENDERSON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a declaratory judgment cancelling a written lease on space rented for a shoe store in the Brook-ings Mall located at Brookings, South Dakota. We affirm.

Appellant, Brookings Mall, Inc., operates a shopping mall. Appellee Hicks operates a shoe store within the Brookings Mall under an assigned lease agreement. The lease agreement was originally entered into between the Mall and Lee and Connie Col-burn on October 10, 1977, which lease was a partially preprinted, standard form lease prepared by appellant.

Under the terms of the lease agreement, the lease…