Fashions Four Corp. v. Fashion Place Associates

HOWE, Justice:

This appeal involves the reassignment of a lease that had been entered into between plaintiff, Fashions Four Corporation (Fashions Four), as lessee, and defendant Fashion Place Associates (Fashion Place), as lessor.

Fashion Place was the lessor and Fashions Four was the lessee under a ten-year lease dated May 6, 1974, for premises at the Fashion Place Mall, commercially known as “Charlie’s.” Article 15 of the lease provided for the lessor’s written consent to any assignment by the lessee. In September of 1978, Fashions Four assigned its lease to Norsal Development Corporation.…