Glass v. Colman

Citations

• 14 Wash. 635
• 45 P. 310
• 1896 Wash. LEXIS 424

Syllabus

<p>LANDLORD AND TENANT — DANGEROUS HOTEL PREMISES — INJURIES TO GUEST OE LESSEE — ASSUMPTION OP RISK.</p> <p>A landlord is not liable for injuries resulting to an occupant of a room in a building from its improper construction, where the partitioning and fitting up of the rooms in the building had been done by the tenant after the commencement of his term, with the understanding that the tenant had the right to remove them, and the negligence attending the making of the improvements on the building was chargeable wholly to the tenant and not to his landlord.</p> <p>The fact that subsequent to the beginning of the tenancy and the making of such improvements by the tenant, the tenancy is changed to one from month to month, will not render the landlord liable for negligence in the construction of such improvements, when the tenant’s right to remove the improvements at the end of his term still continues.</p> <p>Where the construction of a hotel building is such as to make it dangerous for a guest to occupy a room therein, he is guilty of contributory negligence, when with knowledge of the defective construction he remains a guest; and knowledge of the defect will be imputed where the guest has occupied the hotel for such a length of time as to know, or have an opportunity to know, of the defective construction.</p>