Piccola by and Through Piccola v. Woodall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a landlord has a duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of tenants and others
• holding that a landlord has a duty to exercise reasonable care for the safety of tenants and others
• explaining that lessee notifying lessor of the need for repair is a prerequisite to liability under section 357
• landlord not liable for tenants’ guest’s injuries because landlord’s “duty to warn of or remedy the [dangerous] . . . condition devolved upon the tenants” once tenants knew of the dangerous condition
• landlord could properly have been held liable for injuries sustained by tenants’ guest
• “A landlord owes a duty of reasonable care which requires inspection of premises if there is reason to suspect defects existing at the time the tenant takes possession. The landlord must repair or warn the tenant of such defects.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).