Legal Opinion
Connaught Tower Corp. v. Nagar
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided February 10, 2009PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Richard F. Braun, J.), entered December 12, 2007, which, in an action for breach of a commercial lease, granted plaintiff landlord’s motion for summary judgment on the issue of liability, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Defendant tenants’ vacating of the premises by delivery of the keys to one “David,” and David’s purported written acceptance of the keys on behalf of plaintiff landlord, could not operate as a surrender of the premises, where the lease specified that the delivery of keys to any agent or employee of plaintiff could not operate as a…
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