Maori Trustee v Clark - [1984] 1 NZLR 578

Property law — Lease — Damages — Lease contained provisions entitling lessee to compensation for improvements — Lessor brought action alleging breaches of lessee's covenants which required him to effect capital improvements during term of lease — Whether, if lessor was entitled to recover damages for breaches of the covenants, such damages should be reduced by the sum that would have been payable under the compensation clause if the lessee had performed the covenants.