Properties Investment Group of Mid-America v. JBA, Inc.

In this appeal, a lessee that breached a long-term commercial warehouse lease claims that the district court for Douglas County erred when it entered a $141,308.87 partial summary judgment in favor of the lessor.

The lessee, JBA, Inc., a corporation, primarily complains that a genuine issue of material fact existed as to whether the lessor, Properties Investment Group of Mid-America (PIGOMA), a Nebraska partnership, had taken reasonable steps to mitigate its damages following JBA, Inc.’s breach of the lease. Inherent in the entry of the partial summary judgment in favor of PIGOMA is a finding…