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Gourmet Lane, Inc. v. Keller
Facts
Seven operators of food concessions (the occupants), including Clyde Keller (litigant), had leased with Kassis Building Corporation (the landowner) in a market concourse. Each lease if the inhabitants would go into a relationship with the end goal of keeping up and working the regular range utilized by the occupants for feasting, food preparation, and dishwashing. Each rent likewise gave that a choice by most of the inhabitants with respect to the normal region would be official on every one of the occupants. The occupants deliberately worked together and later joined as Gourmet Lane, Inc. (Gourmet Lane) (plaintiff). Each occupant was a director of Gourmet Lane. A dominant part of the directors consented to apportion the expenses of working the normal range by charging each occupant a fixed minimum weekly amount, in addition to a specific proportion of each inhabitant's taxable sales. An accountant procured by Gourmet Lane announced that other food purveyors in comparable markets utilized a similar technique for cost allotment. Keller paid the weekly amounts for some time and then ceased his payments. Gourmet Lane sued Keller for his share to operate the common area. The trial court found that Keller had consented to pay his offer as indicated by the technique embraced by a larger part of Gourmet Lane's director and that Keller had a commitment to pay at that rate under an agreement for a third-party beneficiary. Keller appealed.
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