Legal Opinion
Cordes v. Wood
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 28, 1996No. 81962PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SUMMERS, Justice.
A tenant was raped in her rented home when a stranger broke in through a locked door. She and her husband sued the landlord for maintaining ineffective locks. The trial court ordered summary judgment for landlord and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We find several material facts in controversy and reverse.
In 1990 Lois Cordes was raped in her duplex when an assailant gained entry through a side door. Her two-year-old son and four-year-old daughter were in the home at the time of the attack. Jeffery and Lois Cordes had lived in the duplex for two years. The Cordes allege that…
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