Wille v. Maier

The complaint states a cause of action against the defendant as an attorney at law, based upon fraudulent and dishonest advice given by him to plaintiff to induce her to sign an agreement for the assignment of a lease.

Martha Wille, the plaintiff herein, had leased property in New York city known as 66 West Fifty-first street for a period of twenty years. The lease contained a provision forbidding the lessee to sublet the property. Ira Maier, the defendant herein, the president and principal stockholder of Tyler Hill Corporation, approached plaintiff with an offer on behalf of the corporation…