Knight v. OMI CORP.

Plaintiffs Kenneth K. Knight and Grace L. Knight appeal from a judgment entered pursuant to an order granting partial summary judgment to defendant OMI Corporation (OMI) in the district court, Park County. The district court ruled that under the lan guage of a lease between plaintiffs, as lessors, and OMI as lessee, plaintiffs were entitled to neither future rentals nor damages based upon future rentals following plaintiffs’ cancellation of the lease.

The action concerns the lease of a motel, restaurant, and bar complex in Livingston, Montana. On November 27, 1973, plaintiffs entered into a…