Legal Opinion
Cedar-Fieldstone Marketplace, LP v. T.S. Fitness, Inc.
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided March 15, 2018No. AC 17-P-791Published
1Opinion of the CourtMilkey, J.
*799 *33 In this case, we consider whether the release of a landlord's claims against a tenant for unpaid rent pursuant to a lease precluded the landlord from bringing a collection action against a guarantor of the lease. We conclude that it did not.
Background . The defendant T.S. Fitness, Inc. (tenant), rented commercial property in New Bedford from the plaintiff, Cedar-Fieldstone Marketplace, LP (landlord). In 2011, those parties agreed to a modification of the then-existing lease between them. To secure the tenant's payment obligations under the modified *34 lease, the tenant's president, the…
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