Buford-Clairmont, Inc. v. Jacobs Pharmacy Co.

Clark, Judge.

This case involves determination of the rights and liabilities of a landlord-plaintiff and tenant-defendant under a twenty-year lease for a combined drug store-cafeteria location in a shopping center upon tenant vacating the premises after an occupancy of only one year and five months.

The document which sought to spell out the obligations of the respective parties was a detailed commercial contract covering 40 pages in the record. In its final form it is composed of the original writing dated March 8, 1967, and four amendments. Initially tenant leased 9,100 square feet with the…