Settles v. REDSTONE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

How courts have described this case

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• holding that a landlord is not liable for injury to a third party on leased premises, even if he is on notice of the danger, unless he has “retained sufficient control to create a duty on his part to exercise due care in maintaining the area.”
• “When an injury occurs on a portion of the premises or because of an instrumentality exclusively under the control of the tenant, the landlord is not liable since he exercises no measure of control over the area or the instrumentality”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).