Morhous v. Supreme Court

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that by knowingly leasing premises to owner of vicious dog, landlord could be found to have created risk that injured plaintiff
• stating that landlord may be liable who, with knowledge that prospective tenant has vicious dog which will be kept on premises, leases premises to tenant without taking reasonable measures, by provisions in lease or otherwise, to prevent attacks by dog
• stating that landlord may be liable who, with knowledge that prospective tenant has vicious dog which will be kept on premises, leases premises to tenant without taking reasonable measures, by provisions in lease or otherwise, to prevent attacks by dog
• landlord may be liable if she knows dog is vicious and fails to take reasonable steps to protect others
• landlords, as others, must exercise reasonable care not to expose third parties to unreasonable risk of harm
• landlords, as others, must exercise reasonable care not to expose third parties to unreasonable risk of harm

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).