Matthews v. Amberwood Associates Ltd. Partnership, Inc.

ELDRIDGE, Judge.

We issued a writ of certiorari in this tort case primarily to decide the issue of whether a landlord of an apartment complex owes a duty to social guests of a tenant who, while in the tenant’s apartment, are injured or killed by a highly dangerous pit bull dog kept by the tenant, when the landlord knew of the dog’s presence and was aware of the dog’s dangerousness, when the presence of the dog was in violation of the lease, and where the landlord could have taken steps to abate the danger.

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Shelly Morton leased apartment A-l in an apartment building located at 6012 Amberwood…