De Bruyn Produce Co. v. Romero

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the MCPA “defines ‘trade or commerce’ to include the rental of real property.”
• reciting the rule from Batsche and noting that “[t]he question then becomes what period of time is sufficient to establish laches on the part of the landowner”
• rejecting the contention that an employer’s provision of housing to its workers by itself gave rise to a landlord-tenant relationship, and stating that there must be evidence that the parties intended to create a landlord-tenant relationship
• “an ambiguous document must be construed against the drafter of the document”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).