Owner Entitled to Full Rent for Abandoned Buildings

Facts: An owner sued a tenant for breaching its two leases after the tenant abandoned both of the owner's buildings that it rented and refused to pay the remaining rent due under the leases. Because the tenant failed to appear at two summary dispossess proceedings for nonpayment of rent, the court ruled in favor of the owner. This established that the tenant had breached the leases. However, the court denied the owner's request for a judgment in her favor without a trial as to the tenant's liability for breaching the leases. The owner appealed.