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What Happened: A lease between a shopping center and hair salon banned the landlord from renting to a competing business. The landlord then acquired an adjacent, nearly identical building sharing the same parking lot located only 50 yards away and leased part of it to another hair salon for 10 years. When the original salon tenant found out, it sued the landlord for fraud and breach of contract. The trial court nixed the fraud claim but found the landlord liable for violating the noncompete. The landlord appealed.
