THOMAS, Justice.
This appeal focuses upon the meaning of a rent acceleration clause in a written lease. We must first determine whether the clause is mandatory or optional. Once we resolve that question, we must then decide whether the lessor, in suing for rent from a defaulting lessee, was required, in light of the acceleration clause, to institute a single suit to collect all the rent at one time or whether he had the option to bring multiple suits to collect the...
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