Huggins v. Huggins & Harrison, Inc.

This case involves a dispute over a landlord’s contractual right to terminate a long-term commercial lease and to require the tenants to renegotiate the terms. The tenants, appellants Thomas A. Huggins (“Thomas”) and his company, TAH, Inc. (“TAH”), contend that the landlord has no such right; the landlord, a related family business by the name of Huggins & Harrison, Inc. (“H & H”), contends that it does.

The Circuit Court for Montgomery County determined that the pertinent lease provision was unambiguous and, accordingly, declined to consider Thomas’s and TAH’s extrinsic evidence of the…