Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. v. Ingles Markets, Inc.

LEVINSON, Judge.

Defendants (Ingles Markets, Inc., and E.H. Properties, L.P.) appeal from an order granting summary judgment in favor of plaintiff (Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.). For the reasons discussed below, we affirm the trial court.

The factual and procedural background may be summarized as follows: In 1987, defendant Ingles leased space in the Stanly County Shopping Plaza (the shopping center), in Albemarle, for operation of a grocery store. Ingles and defendant Home, then the owner of the shopping center, executed a lease setting out the terms of the rental. An abbreviated Memorandum of Lease…