Evco Corporation v. Ross

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• recognizing that in enacting an earlier version of this statute, the General Assembly had overruled a prior holding in Zuccarello v. Clifton, 12 Tenn. App. 286, 292 (Tenn. Ct. App. 1930
• providing that the lessors of a building destroyed by fire would have had the statutory right to terminate the lease pursuant to Section 66-7-102, absent provisions in the lease providing otherwise
• explaining under a prior version of the statute that the lessee’s “statutory right to surrender the premises and be relieved of any further rental payments” is “an optional remedy of a tenant, and is not compulsory”
• “[W]e do not believe it was the intention of the parties that there should be an automatic cancellation or termination” where promises regarding repair and replacement were included in the lease in question

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