Pabian Outdoor-Aiken, Inc. v. Dockery

Phipps, Judge.

Pauline Dockery sued Pabian Outdoor-Aiken, Inc. for declaratory judgment and ejectment. Dockery claims a lease agreement between her as lessor and Pabian as lessee is unenforceable, because a clause which gives Pabian the unilateral right of termination removes the required element of mutuality from the contract. Dockery also asserts that the payments due her under the lease are unconscionably low and that she would not have agreed to the lease but for Pabian’s fraud and misrepresentation. Among other things, Pabian argues that because it incurred substantial expenses in…