Legal Opinion
Carr v. Rose
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 9, 1997No. 94-CV-729PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*1067STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
This appeal arises from years of effort on the part of appellants (collectively the “landlord”) to recover damages for breach of a lease on office space after the tenants decided they no longer wished to occupy the leased space. The great bulk of the tenant appellees were not members of the law firm that executed the lease but rather of a subsequent “consolidated” law firm.
The principal question presented is whether the trial court properly dismissed the landlord’s action in its entirety against the tenants on the ground that it is barred under principles of res…
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