Overend v. Kiernan

This is a defendant’s appeal from a judgment of the Hudson County Circuit Court. The plaintiff, Adeline M. Overend, was a milliner. She claimed that in March, 1923, she had been approached by the defendants, who were stockholders in Perlmutter’s, Incorporated, a corporation conducting a department store in the city of Jersey City, and was asked to open a millinery shop in the upper floor of the building occupied by the corporation. The plaintiff contended that it was represented to her that the corporation had a long term lease upon the building, that it was financially sound, and that the…