Topp Copy Products Inc. v. Singletary

BECK, Judge:

Appellant-tenant challenges the trial court’s grant of summary judgment to appellee-landlord based upon an exculpatory clause included in the parties’ commercial lease agreement. Tenant sued his landlord to recover for property damage caused by a water leak from the floor above the premises leased by tenant. On appeal tenant raises two issues: (1) whether the trial court erred in granting summary judgment to the landlord where the lease agreement and exculpatory clause were ambiguous; and (2) whether the trial court erred in not extending the law of the Commonwealth to recognize…