TORT LIABILITY OF A LANDLORD

Authors

Raymond Harrison Harkrider, Of the Chicago, Illinois, Bar

Abstract

When a landowner leases his property to a tenant he looks upon the transaction as purely a business matter. He is seldom aware, perhaps, of the duties resting upon him, the breach of which may subject him to an action in tort. The relation created is one of the most common known to our law and gives rise to a multitude of problems. The courts in their business-like manner treat the law as well settled, and decide the cases as they are presented with very little discussion of the true principles involved. Legal scholars have discussed very little the tort liability of a landlord; the periodicals are searched in vain for satisfactory exposition of this topic. A paper, therefore, upon this phase of the law cannot be regarded as wholly redundant.

Recommended Citation

Raymond H. Harkrider, TORT LIABILITY OF A LANDLORD, 26 Mich. L. Rev. 260 (1928).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol26/iss3/3