Einhorn v. Perma Realty Corp.

TMs is an action by a tenant to reform a lease covering certain offices located in a business and commercial building situated in the borough of Manhattan. The lease was executed in January, 1952, for a term of three years, and the plaintiff seeks to eliminate from the lease a certain printed clause claimed to have the effect of depriving the plaintiff of his rights as a statutory tenant under the provisions of the Business Rent Law. The plaintiff says that the particular clause was included in the lease by mutual mistake “ since I was completely unaware that a clause with such an effect was…