Ringwood Assocs., Ltd. v. Jack's of Route 23, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• stating that because a lease is like any other written contract, when either party fails to perform a covenant, the injured party may bring an action for damages for breach of contract
• the landlord’s interest extends to his “interest in the operation of the shopping center,” as opposed to the landlord’s interest in the operation of the singular leasehold (storefront)
• “The fact that the lessor could obtain a higher rent under a new lease agreement but not under an assignment of [the tenant’s] lease did not justify the lessor’s refusal to consent to the assignment.”
• “[LJease covenants, unless expressly made dependent, have been considered independent.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).