Legal Opinion

Pacific Northwest Group a v. Pizza Blends, Inc.

Court of Appeals of Washington

Decided March 2, 1998No. 39994-2-IPublishedCited by 6 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

*275Ellington, J.

This case requires us to decide whether summary judgment was properly granted to Pacific Northwest Group for outstanding rent allegedly incurred by Pizza Blends as a holdover tenant. The fundamental issue is whether the parties could orally contract to extend Pizza Blends’ tenancy on a month-to-month basis at the original rate, despite a holdover rent requirement in the original written lease and a clause prohibiting oral modification. Long-standing precedent dictates that such clauses are unenforceable because they can be orally abrogated. It is a question of fact whether the…

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