Looking at cases from across the country that split on a “narrow but significant issue of law” about damages in breach-of-lease cases, the Arizona Court of Appeals cited a 1976 Illinois Appellate Court cases as following the minority rule.The dispute involved a tenant that defaulted and a landlord that wound up getting more in rent when it mitigated its loss by re-leasing the premises. Things are simple when the new tenant pays the same rent; the defaulting tenant is only liable for the rent that wasn’t paid before the …