Park v. Hoffard

How courts have described this case

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• stating that the Restatement will continue to apply except when its rules “are based on outmoded understandings of legal relationships”
• explaining that landlord-tenant relationship \has implications for a landlord's tort liability to persons injured off the rental property by some action or inaction of the tenant to the extent that a landlord has control over the tenant\
• relying on Restatement (Second) of Torts section 379A (1965) to define responsibility of landlord for physical harm to persons off the rental property caused by a tenant’s dog
• noting landowner may be liable because of “special relationship” arising from landowner’s “ability to control the activities of the tenant” through deciding whether to renew lease
• noting landowner may be liable because of “special relationship” arising from landowner’s “ability to control the activities of the tenant” through deciding whether to renew lease
• noting landowner may be liable because of “special relationship” arising from landowner’s “ability to control the activities of the tenant” through deciding whether to renew lease

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).