World Package, Express & Messenger Co. v. Trades Assembly

How courts have described this case

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• explaining that the remedies provided under the Act are cumulative
• discussing Restatement (Second) rule in context of defective stairs leading directly to injured tenants' apartment and holding cause of action in tort existed for landlord's breach of Ohio's version of RLTA
• discussing Restatement (Second) rule in context of defective stairs leading directly to injured tenants’ apartment and holding cause of action in tort existed for landlord’s breach of Ohio’s version of RLTA
• “abrogation of this [landlord] immunity has been advocated by legal commentators, and the overwhelming majority of states have abolished, either in whole or in part, the traditional immunity.”
• \it must be shown that the landlord received notice of the defective condition of the rental premises\
• “remedies provided in [Ohio’s residential landlord-tenant act] are cumulative .... For example, the remedy of depositing rental payments with the clerk of court is grossly inadequate to compensate tenants for the types of injuries sustained in the present case.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).