Crowell v. Housing Authority of City of Dallas

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that lease provision exempting landlord from tort liability to tenants was against public policy
• holding that lease provision exempting landlord from tort liability to tenants was against public policy
• concluding that if one party is at such a disadvantage in bargaining power that he is practically compelled to sign the release, it will be unenforceable
• invalidating a lease clause on public policy grounds because it purported to release the Dallas Housing Authority from liability for negligence in the performance of its duty of public service
• lease provision exempting authority from tort liability to tenants
• lease provision exempting landlord from tort liability to tenants

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).