Tampa Port Authority v. Tampa Barge Services, Inc.

LEHAN, Judge.

In this declaratory judgment suit we agree with the trial judge that the definition in the lease involved in this suit of the tenant’s “gross business,” which established the basis upon which to calculate rent, was ambiguous. The record supports the trial court’s resolution of that ambiguity by determining that there was no intent of the parties to the lease to calculate rent on the basis argued for by appellant landlord which would have included in “gross business” certain revenues not received by the tenant from work done by others on the leased premises. Therefore, summary…