Morris v. Canadian Four State Holding, Ltd.

Judgment unanimously affirmed with costs. Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment. The record establishes that in 1969 William C. Morris (decedent) and defendants’ predecessors entered into a 60-year lease of The New Hartford Shopping Center. Decedent died in 1997, with 32 years of the lease remaining. Pursuant to the terms of decedent’s will, the executors of the estate of decedent assigned all of his right, title and interest to the lease to a trust created under paragraph “third” of the will. Defendants notified plaintiffs that the assignment of…