Westcott v. Konstantynowicz

To prevent fraud or oppression and to promote justice, a court of equity will look beyond the apparent authenticity and perceptible efficiency of the written instrument and explore the character of the transaction and the contemporaneous intentions of the parties. The complainants invoke that doctrine in the prosecution of the present cause.

The complainants are a young married couple who at the dawn of the year 1944 were residing as tenants in an apartment at Trenton. They received notice of the termination of their tenancy, and they were consequently obliged to obtain another place of abode.…