Chrysler Realty Corp. v. Davis

I respectfully dissent. The trial court found “the best rights that Chrysler ever obtained was the rights that — that Frontier had. And Frontier’s rights were extinguished” when Frontier defaulted. I would affirm this ruling.

“It is a well-settled principle of landlord-tenant law that a sublease rises and falls with the master lease, and that a sublessee can take no greater rights in demised property than its sublessor.” Thai v. S.G.D. Corp., 625 So.2d 852, 853 (Fla. 3d DCA 1993). Thus, Chrysler could not obtain any greater rights than Frontier had under the Lease.

The majority agrees that the…