Haddad v. Wood

OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment against the plaintiffilandlord in an action to recover past due rent installments under a written lease. We affirm the summary judgment in part, and reverse it in part.

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The appellant, Norman Haddad, owns and operates the University Hills Plaza Shopping Center. Surety Savings and Loan, the lender from whom Haddad had obtained financing for the shopping center, retained the right to approve tenants and leases for the *440center. When Surety refused to approve James and Jennifer Veale as tenants, their…