Key legal question
Whether the arcade's inability to be used as a café-restaurant was a defect of the leased premises entitling the tenant to repairs and rent reduction.
Extracted holding
No. Restaurant use was mentioned as the contractual destination, but the landlord did not promise that the premises were already fit for that use, nor could the tenant legitimately expect that they were. The inability therefore was not a defect under the lease remedies provisions.
Extracted reasoning
Interpretation under Art. 18 CO showed that the contract allowed restaurant use, but given the premises' state, prior business, and lack of negotiation on special fittings, the tenant had to bear the cost of making the premises suitable under Art. 260a CO.