Legal Opinion
Principal Mutual Life Insurance v. Racal-Datacom, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided November 22, 2000No. 99-2035, 99-2197PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOUDIN, Circuit Judge.
This difficult case presents the question whether the landlord or the tenant should bear the cost of replacing a failed heating, ventilation and air conditioning (“HVAC”) system in a commercial building located in Boxborough, Massachusetts. The landlord is Principal Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the tenant is Racal-Data-com, Incorporated. 1 The building is a manufacturing and office building called Boxborough Technology Park Building I, which Principal’s contractor had “built to suit” Racal. The present dispute involves two separate leases for the building.
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