Bybee v. O'HAGEN

How courts have described this case

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• declining to find intent to impose strict liability where statute punishes willful violations
• no residential landlord-tenant act but liability under common law if tenant is injured due to defective condition the landlord agreed to repair or negligently repaired; violation of building codes is negligence per se
• “ ‘In the ordinary case, all that is required is reasonable diligence to obey the statute, and it frequently has been recognized that a violation of the law may be reasonable, and may be excused.’ ”
• no common-law duty of landlord to provide smoke detector, but violation of Smoke Detector Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 127½, par. 801 et seq. (now 425 ILCS 60/1 et seq. (West 1996))) authorized private right of action

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