Hi Kai Investment, Ltd. v. Aloha Futons Beds & Waterbeds, Inc.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that, under the common law, if a tenant breaches a lease, a landlord may elect to continue the tenancy and sue periodically for rent as it accrues
• “Leases are essentially contractual in nature and are reviewed under the principles of contract law.”
• “Absent an ambiguity, contract terms should be interpreted according to their plain, ordinary, and accepted sense in common speech.”
• “[A] basic precept of contract law is that a party who sustains a loss by the breach of another is entitled to compensation that will ‘actually or as precisely as possible compensate the injured party.’ ” (Citation omitted.)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).