Textile Capitol Building Corp. v. Wendel Foundation

The complaint alleges, in substance, that defendant was the owner of the certain parcel of land constituting the northerly half of the block bounded by Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth streets, Broadway and Seventh avenue, sometimes known as block 814; that between December 8, 1936,- and February 18, 1937, the plaintiff, through Isidor Friedman, its duly authorized agent, and the defendant duly entered into an agreement to lease, whereby it was mutually agreed that defendant, and Isidor Friedman, as tenant, would execute a lease of the premises for a term of twenty-two years, commencing as of…