D. R. W. Corporation v. Cordes

If this case were a book it would begin with the down payment of $5 by respondent on a three-year lease of an apartment. In the first chapter would be the notice from the not-to-be-tenant that he had been transferred out of the city and would not move into the apartment. Then would come the four months’ vacancy and the landlord-corporation’s suit for rental loss and the expense of rerenting under the lease agreement. That would be an ordinary enough first chapter describing a usual enough sequence of events but, from there on, the plot does thicken.

Defense of fraud. As an affirmative defense…