 and one Reed, copartners, for the exclusive right for the period of 10 years to sell its fish and fish products. In June 1942, the partnership of appellant and Reed was dissolved. Appellant took over the entire business and with the oral consent of Pesquera, the written contract was continued in force, and appellant continued the business under the old partnership name having duly filed a certificate for that purpose. In June, 1943, defendants falsely represented to Pasquera that appellant was not fit or qualified to represent them, that Pesquera could deal more profitably and advantageously with defendants if it would discontinue its contractual relations with plaintiff and deal solely through *672 defendants, and persuaded them to cancel their contract with appellant and to refuse to pay him the agreed commissions as agent.
 The pleadings present a case closely akin to Elsbach v. Mulligan, 58 Cal.App.2d 354 [136 P.2d 651]. [2] One who fraudulently and wrongfully induces another not to perform a contract is liable for the harm thus caused. Restatement Torts,  766; Remillard-Dandini Co. v. Dandini, 46 Cal.App.2d 678 [116 P.2d 641]; H. G. Fenton Mat. Co. v. Challet, 49 Cal.App.2d 410 [121 P.2d 788]; Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier, 18 Cal.2d 33 [112 P.2d 631]; Speegle v. Board of Fire Underwriters, 29 Cal.2d 34 [172 P.2d 867].
 [1b] Neither the complaint nor the proposed amendment is a model of good pleading but a triable cause of action is pleaded. It is said in Imperial Ice Co. v. Rossier, supra, page 35: "Most jurisdictions also hold that an action will lie for inducing a breach of contract by the use of moral, social, or economic pressures, in themselves lawful, unless there is sufficient justification for such inducement. (See cases cited in 84 A.L.R. 55; 24 Cal.L.Rev. 208, 209; see Sayre, Inducing Breach of Contract, 36 Harv.L.Rev. 663, 671; Carpenter, Interference With Contractual Relations, 41 Harv.L.Rev. 728, 732; Rest., Torts, sec. 766.)" Again, at page 39, the court said: "By inducing Coker to violate his 