Prevas v. Gottlieb

The appellant, Konstantine J. Prevas, plaintiff below, an attorney now appearing in proper person, derived his claim by an assignment from his sixty-five year old mother. He brought suit in the lower court to recover damages for the unpaid monthly rental payments accrued as the result of the breach of the lease originally entered into between his assignor and the appellee, William Gottlieb, defendant below. After a full trial on the merits before the court, sitting without a jury, the trial court found as a fact that the former landlord and her attorney did, by their conduct, “lead the…