Thirteenth & Washington Sts. Corp. v. Neslen

How courts have described this case

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

• stating intent may be inferred from landlord’s acts “whenever his conduct is such that it substantially deprives the tenant of the use of the premises for the purpose for which they were demised”
• defining constructive eviction as “ ‘any disturbance of the tenant’s possession by the landlord, or someone acting under his au thority, which renders the premises unfit for occupancy for the purposes for which they were demised’” (citation omitted)
• “[I]t was peculiarly [the trial court’s] prerogative to determine whether the difficulties were sufficient to constitute a constructive eviction of the tenants.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).