Key legal question
Whether the repeated fixed-term lease contracts were invalid as impermissible chain contracts by analogy to employment law
Extracted holding
No. The repeated one-year contracts were not shown to be a prohibited circumvention and remained permissible.
Extracted reasoning
The court found no protected lease rule being circumvented. The landlord had legitimate reasons for limiting the term, the tenant could have insisted on a longer term, and fixed terms do not create specific tenant rights comparable to employment law.