Yeon Street Partners v. Environmental Consulting Service

Plaintiff (landlord) sought specific performance of an alleged oral modification to a written lease. Landlord obtained a prefiminary injunction that required tenant to vacate before trial and required landlord to pay tenant’s actual moving expenses. When the case came to trial, the parties agreed that they had presented all of the evidence at the hearing on the preliminary injunction. The court therefore entered judgment granting landlord a permanent injunction on the same terms. Tenant appeals, and landlord moves to dismiss the appeal.

Landlord had purchased the building in which tenant was a…