Medical Park Station, LLC v. 72 Madison, LLC

PITTMAN, Judge.

This appeal arises from a dispute stemming from a lease contract entered into between Medical Park Station, LLC (“the lessor”), and Southern Food Services, LLC, whose position as lessee under that contract was later assumed by 72 Madison, LLC (“the assignee”). The assignee sued the lessor in April 2014, seeking reformation of the lease contract and an award of compensatory and punitive damages, on theories of fraud and mistake, based upon the lessor’s failure or refusal to pay a $40,000 allowance for tenant improvements that, the assignee asserted, had been negotiated as a term…