Young v. Mobil Oil Corp.

The defendant’s motion for summary judgment (Mass.R.Civ.P. 56[b], 365 Mass. 824 [1974]) was granted in the plaintiff’s action for damages brought on the defendant’s alleged breach of a lease between the plaintiff as lessee and the defendant as lessor. On appeal the plaintiff’s sole contention is that there remains a “genuine issue as to a ... material *806fact” (Mass.R.Civ.P. 56 [c], 365 Mass. 824 [1974]), namely, whether the defendant’s notice to terminate, given June 10, 1970, pursuant to the “redevelopment rider” to the lease, was given without a good faith intent to “redevelop” the premises…