Zuckerman Group v. Raveis

This is an appeal by a tenant under a commercial lease from a judgment rendered by the trial court for the plaintiff landlord. The court found that the parties exercised an option and entered into an extension of the written lease and that the tenant thereafter breached the terms of the contract by failing to pay rent as it became due, and it awarded damages to the plaintiff. The defendant tenant appeals, claiming that no lease ever existed because the signatory to it was not, in fact, the owner of the premises, that he is not estopped from asserting the invalidity of the lease, that if a…