Vigil by and Through Vigil v. Payne

How courts have described this case

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• holding that landlord who has actual knowledge that tenant owns animal with vicious propensities has duty to take reasonable precautions to prevent attacks by animal
• limiting duty to when landlord has actual knowledge of animal's viciousness prior to entering into rental agreement
• adopting the rule that where a landlord has actual knowledge that a tenant owns an animal whose vicious actions have created a clear potential for injury, the landlord has a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect third persons from the animal
• adopting the rule that where a landlord has actual knowledge that a tenant owns an animal whose vicious actions have created a clear potential for injury, the landlord has a duty to take reasonable precautions to protect third persons from the animal
• landlord's duty of care is limited to instances in which landlord actually knows of \vicious actions\ of animal before renting premises to owner
• landlord has duty to take reasonable precautions where knows before entering lease that tenant's animal is vicious

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