Mesilla Valley Mall Co. v. Crown Industries

OPINION

RANSOM, Justice.

This appeal is from a decision of the trial court that the lessor had accepted the lessee’s surrender of a leasehold, relieving the lessee of any further obligation under the lease. There being substantial evidence to support the factual findings of the trial court, and having no disagreement on the applicable principles of law, we affirm.

The essential facts of this case are few and uncontested. Crown Industries, doing business as Lemon Tree, Inc., occupied retail premises at the Mesilla Valley Mall in Las Cruces under a long-term lease with the Mesilla Valley Mall…