Tenney v. Atlantic Associates

How courts have described this case

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• recognizing “[a] landlord is not an insurer against every conceivable act by a third party”
• providing that landlords, like innkeepers, owe a duty of care to protect tenants from reasonably foreseeable harm
• recognizing the similarity of the innkeeper-guest relationship and the landlord-tenant relationship
• noting that premises liability under Restatement section 344 presupposes foreseeability
• noting, in the context of apartment leases, “the traditional analysis of a lease as being a conveyance of an interest in land—with all the medieval connotations this often 6 brings—was reappraised, and found lacking in several respects” (citation omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).