Rogers v. Gulf Oil Corp.

In order to impose liability upon the lessor for injuries to a third person on leased premises or from contact with leased mechanical appliances, alleged to have been out of repair and defective, it must be made to appear that the lessor had either contracted to repair and maintain, or that “he knowingly demised premises in a ruinous condition or *243in a trate of nuisance,” or tliat he “authorized the wrong.” Mercer v. Williams. 210 N. C., 456, 187 S. E., 556; Wilson v. Dowtin, 215 N. C., 547, 2 S. E. (2d), 549; Wellons v. Sherrin, 217 N. C., 534, 8 S. E. (2d), 820; Livingston v. Investment Co.,…