Presley v. Ponce Plaza Associates

This is an appeal from a final summary judgment imposing personal liability upon the appellant for accelerated rent due under a lease agreement which the appellant purportedly executed on behalf of a professional association. Although the named professional association utilized by the appellant on the lease agreement was not a duly incorporated entity, the appellant maintained that the parties understood that it was merely an abbreviated name for appellant’s duly incorporated entity. The appellee, however, counters that at all times, its lease agreement was with the appellant solely as an…