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Auger v. Tasea Investment Co., 676 A.2d 18 (1996)

Citation
Auger v. Tasea Investment Co., 676 A.2d 18 (1996)
Parent Document
Auger v. Tasea Investment Co., 676 A.2d 18 (1996)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1996-05-16

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No other provision of the partnership agreement is at issue here. The trial court, not surprisingly, found this agreement “sufficiently ambiguous to require the use of parol evidence ... to flesh out what precisely was meant.”2 The court then found, by considering both the written agreement and testimony about the oral negotiations between the parties, that Auger and Tasea had agreed to a month-to-month lease of commercial property for $500 a month. That is what the court found “reasonable rate” under the agreement meant. There was no finding that the parties had agreed it could mean anything else. In short, the trial court concluded that the lease provision of the partnership agreement had created a month-to-month tenancy for $500 per month — period.