Freehold Investments v. Richstone

The lease, projected into the statutory tenancy, expressly prohibits any alterations without the consent of the landlord and specifies that even papering the walls or changing the color of the wall paint is a prohibited alteration and a breach of a substantial obligation of the lease. Clearly, under the terms of the lease, the tenant was not at liberty to make the substantial alterations he undertook, without consulting the landlord. No matter how much the plight in which the tenant now finds himself may appeal to sympathy, we cannot undertake to rewrite the agreement of the parties (First…