California Court of Appeal

Judgment for defendant-landlords on plaintiff's breach of contract action is affirmed, where the trial court did not err in denying plaintiff's motion for a directed verdict on the breach of contract cause of action, where: 1) a lease notice provision can be modified by the lessee's direction to give notice to the lessee's counsel as it was here; 2) defendant's counsel was therefore lawfully permitted to mail notice of the inspection to plaintiff's counsel instead of directly to plaintiff at the premises; and thus, 2) defendant did not breach the lease as a matter of law, when it gave notice to plaintiff's counsel of its intent to inspect the premises.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/24/2013
• Published 07/24/2013

Judges

• YEGAN

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel