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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Centerline Investment Co. v. Tri-Cor Industries, Inc., 80 S.W.3d 499 (2002)

Citation
Centerline Investment Co. v. Tri-Cor Industries, Inc., 80 S.W.3d 499 (2002)
Parent Document
Centerline Investment Co. v. Tri-Cor Industries, Inc., 80 S.W.3d 499 (2002)
Jurisdiction
Missouri (state)
Effective Date
2002-07-23

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We are reluctant to hold a lessee liable for the vacancy of space which it neither leased nor consented to be liable for. The difficulty in comparing the desirability of different locations from a prospective lessee’s point of view and in accurately determining what might have been had the lessor not elected to engage in such musical chairs makes it too difficult to determine the objective reasonableness of the lessor’s decisions to fill the wrongfully abandoned leased premises by permitting and facilitating current lessees to move and to hold the lessee who wrongfully abandoned the leased premises hable for the resulting vacated spaces and the cost of facilitating the moves. When the lessor owns all of the vacated spaces, its added self-interest compounds the problem.