Court Opinion

ID: 9709950
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 03:58:14.86827+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:22:52.964126
License: Public Domain

SHIELDS, Judge,
concurring.
I agree the City's acquisition of the fee interest of LaScala effected a merger of the fee with City's leasehold interest previously acquired from Page Two. I also agree the merger of those two interests terminated the leasehold and the Master Lease. Finally, I agree the phrase "for any cause whatsoever" means "for any reason".
Ordinarily, termination of the lease means the lease itself terminates; it does not necessarily leave the sublessee without a remedy for the premature termination of the lease. Hence, the termination of Page Two's leasehold interest would not have terminated the interest of the sublessee, P.C. Management, but for the provisions of the sublease to which P.C. Management agreed. In particular, P.C. Management *440agreed to the terms of paragraph four of the subject sublease which specifically provides the sublease shall terminate if the Master Lease terminates. Thus, P.C. Management consented to the extinguishment of its rights when the Master Lease terminated through merger.
I want to emphasize the fact that when the City acquired the interests of other sublessees the City had mot acquired the fee simple interest of LaScala. Therefore, at that time, merger had not occurred and the separate interests of the several subles-sees were viable.