Case ID: so2d_714/html/1158-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

METROMEDIA STEAKHOUSES COMPANY, L.P., LTD., Appellant, v. USAA INCOME PROPERTIES, III LIMITED PARTNERSHIP by USAA PROPERTIES, INC., a Texas corporation, its General Partner, Appellee.
    No. 97-03146.
    District Court of Appeal of Florida, Second District.
    July 24, 1998.
    Amy S. Farrior and Raymond T. Elligett, Jr. of Schropp, Buell & Elligett, P.A., Tampa, for Appellant.
    R. Nathan Hightower of MaeFarlane Ferguson & McMullen, Clearwater, for Appellee.
   WHATLEY, Judge.

Metromedia Steakhouses Company, L.P., Ltd., appeals the summary judgment awarding USAA Income Properties III Limited Partnership back rent based on a finding that Metromedia improperly terminated its lease with USAA. We reverse. The parties’ differing interpretations of the termination provisions of the lease reveal that the lease is ambiguous and that, therefore, resolution of this case by summary judgment was not appropriate. See Palazzolo v. Fessler, 680 So.2d 607 (Fla. 2d DCA 1996).

Reversed and remanded for further proceedings.

THREADGILL, A.C.J., and CASANUEVA, J., concur.