Kobylinski v. Hipps

How courts have described this case

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• tenant not landlord out of possession owed duty to warn social guest of tenant of hazardous stairwell; landlord held not liable for death of social guest
• landlord may be liable if it has retained control over a portion of the property which is necessary to the safe use of the premises or shares with the lessee the right to possess any section of the property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).