McKeon v. Williams

*108EDMONDS, J.

Defendants appeal from a judgment in favor of plaintiff for damages for breach of a lease. Defendants also assign error to the trial court’s instruction regarding the measure of damages applicable to defendants’ counterclaim for conversion. We affirm.

Plaintiff is the owner of a commercial building that was leased by defendants for a 20 year term. In February, 1988, the 13th year of the lease, defendants stopped paying monthly rent. At the same time, they began negotiating an assignment of the lease to First Western Resource Company. In addition, First Western offered to purchase…