Tinaco Plaza, LLC v. Freebob's, Inc.

I believe that the trial court should not have granted summary judgment because the pleadings and affidavits submitted by the defendant *779in opposition to the motion for summary judgment fairly implicated the central question of whether the lease had terminated.

The trial court relied on the proposition, gleaned from Connecticut decisional law, that, where the language of the lease is clear and definite, the intention of the parties must be gathered from the instrument itself, and that, where contractual language is clear and unambiguous, intent is a question of law that may be decided by way of…