Woods v. Claving Realty Corp.

FORD, District Judge.

My findings of fact may be briefly stated thus: The defendant, Claving Realty Corporation, of which the defendant Irving Friedman was the president, acquired a building at 204 East Eightieth Street in New York City sometime about the middle of July, 1946, and proceeded to make it available for residential apartments to be rented.

At about that time Mr. Friedman was approached by the defendant Harold C. Samuels, who is the president of the defendant Harold C. Samuels Corporation, and Mr. Samuels secured from Mr. Friedman permission to negotiate with tenants for occupancy of…