Mitchell v. Exhibition Foods, Inc.

Opinion

SABRAW, J.

The major issue on this appeal by plaintiff Mitchel L. Mitchell from a judgment requiring him to execute a new lease of real property to defendants Exhibition Foods, Inc., and Jax Steak House—San Francisco, Inc., is the construction of a “first right of refusal” provision in the antecedent lease between the parties.

I

The original lease executed in February of 1968 concerned a parcel of improved real property located in downtown San Francisco. The lease, whose term would end on January 31,1979, was thereafter amended in two pertinent particulars. First, Exhibition Foods, the…