Howell Gas of Athens, Inc. v. Coile

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• landlord who has no notice of defect giving rise to need for repair has no duty to third party; landlord has no legal duty to inspect to discover defects
• “[T]he landlord may be held [liable] if injury results from a defect in construction and it appears that the improvement was built or installed by him or under his direction, for in that event he is conclusively presumed to know of the defect, or from failure to repair.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).