1010 POTOMAC ASSOC. v. GROCERY MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA, INC.

No. 81-1274.

485 A.2d 199 (1984)

1010 POTOMAC ASSOCIATES and John H. Safer, Appellants, v. GROCERY MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA, INC., and Seymour, Seefriend & Hoffman, Chartered, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 14, 1984.

As Amended December 20, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Jonathan Schraub, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Mark H. Tuohey, III, Washington, D.C., with whom Paula M. Connelly and Shelby D. Green, Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee Grocery Manufacturers of America, Inc.

Timothy J. Bloomfield, Washington, D.C., for appellee Seymour, Seefried & Hoffman, Chartered.

Before NEWMAN and TERRY, Associate Judges, and WERTHEIM, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


WERTHEIM, Associate Judge:

In this action between a commercial landlord and its trade association tenant, the landlord appeals from a mandatory injunction requiring specific performance of the landlord's obligation to consent to a sublease. The dispute centers on the tenant's right to exercise an option to lease additional space and then sublet all the additional space to a third party at a rate double that payable under the prime lease. Relying upon a clause in the...

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