Shevel's, Inc. v. Southeastern Associates, Inc.

This is a landlord-tenant dispute concerning the tenant’s contractual liability for dues to a shopping center merchants’ association. Southeastern Associates, Inc., the landlord, was developer of a shopping center known as Chesterfield Mall. Shevel’s, Inc. — Chesterfield was a tenant operating a men’s clothing store in the mall. The landlord brought a civil warrant in the general district court against the tenant for dues claimed to be owed by the tenant to the merchants’ association. All tenants, pursuant to their respective leases, were required to belong to the association. The tenant…