King v. Investors' Mortgage & Loan Co.

1. It is ordinarily the duty of a landlord to turn over rented property to the tenant in a condition reasonably safe and suited for the use to which the tenant intends to put the same, and free of such latent defects as the exercise of ordinary diligence on the part of the landlord might have disclosed. A landlord is liable for injuries resulting to a tenant from defects which were hidden from the tenant and which the landlord could have discovered by the exercise of ordinary diligence, where the circumstances are such as to require that the landlord should have made an investigation which…