Lamonts Apparel, Inc. v. SI-Lloyd Associates

This case involves a dispute arising from plaintiffs attempts to assign or sublet retail space that it leased from defendant in the Lloyd Center in Portland. The jury found that defendant breached the lease by unreasonably refusing to consent to plaintiffs proposed arrangements and awarded plaintiff damages. The court thereafter granted defendant’s motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict on the ground that the proposed arrangements did not substantially comply with the existing lease and, thus, defendant had no obligation to be reasonable in deciding whether to accept them. Plaintiff…