Robinson v. Heverin

Citations

• 50 Pa. Super. 546
• 1912 Pa. Super. LEXIS 93

Syllabus

<p>Negligence — Defective steps — Landlord and tenant.</p> <p>1. A landlord cannot be held liable to a person occupying a house under a lease as a member of the lessee’s family, for an injury resulting from a defective condition of the steps leading into the house from the sidewalk, if it appears that the person injured had knowledge of the defective condition before the lease was executed, and that the lessee and his family had used the steps daily from the time they took possession to the time of the accident with knowledge of the defect.</p> <p>2. For obvious defects existing before the execution of the lease, the landlord is not responsible to one in possession under the lease in the absence of an express covenant on the part of the landlord to repair.</p>