CC Ming (USA) Ltd. Partnership v. Champagne Video Inc.

—Order and judgment (one paper), Supreme Court, New York County (Walter Schackman, J.), entered December 15, 1995, which, inter alia, granted plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment against the corporate defendant, unanimously affirmed, with costs.

There being a lack of factual support for a finding that the tenant did not retain a reversionary interest in the leased premises, we disagree with the IAS Court that the corporate defendant was a "de facto” assignee of the premises and that the wrongful or unjust act necessary to hold defendant liable for the tenant’s rent obligation, as…