RODOWSKY, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
This case presents the question under a commercial lease to a corporate tenant of whether the merger of the tenant into another corporation violates a nonassignment clause which expressly includes assignments by operation of law. We shall hold that the nonassignment clause was breached.
The problem arises out of the merger of Century National Bank, a national banking association (Century), into The Citizens...
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