Lucas Games Inc. v. Morris AR Associates, LLC

Lucas Games, Inc. and Luc Marcoux, defendants below (“tenants”), appeal an order granting partial final summary judgment in favor of Morris AR Associates, LLC (“the landlord”) in a lease dispute. We find merit in one of the two issues raised by the tenants, namely that the trial court erred in granting summary judgment against the tenants because the landlord failed to rebut the tenants’ affirmative defense of illegality of contract. Accordingly, we reverse.

In February 2013, Lucas Games entered into a lease with the landlord. The lease *1184provided that “Tenant’s Business” was to be “[o]nly for…