Palermo v. Nails

How courts have described this case

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• finding landlord hable for injuries by animals owned by his tenant when landlord had knowledge of presence of dangerous animal and right to control or remove animal by retaking possession of premises
• holding landlord out of possession is not liable for attacks by animals kept by tenant if tenant has exclusive control of premises; but landlord may be liable if he has knowledge of dangerous animal’s presence and right to control or remove animal by retaking possession of premises
• finding landlord liable for injuries by animals owned by his tenant when landlord had knowledge of presence of dangerous animal and right to control or remove animal by retaking possession of premises
• duty to protect arose from knowledge of animal and right to evict tenant at sufferance
• specifically adopting the Uccello approach and holding landlord liable where landlord had ability to eject tenant who was landlord's nephew and whose tenancy was \nothing more than a tenancy at sufferance\
• “The attack occurred on premises owned by the deceased, Mary Castrogiovanni, who leased the property to the defendant Nails.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).