Nahm & Friedman v. Register Newspaper Co.
Court of Appeals of Kentucky
Case 62. — ACTION BY THE REGISTER NEWSPAPER CO. ' AGAINST NAHM & FRIEDMAN FOR DAMAGES IN REPAIRING PROPERTY LEASED BY PLAINfTIFF. Appeal from McCracken Circuit Court. L. D. Husbands, Circuit Judg’d.. Judgment for plaintiff.
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Case 62. — ACTION BY THE REGISTER NEWSPAPER CO. ' AGAINST NAHM & FRIEDMAN FOR DAMAGES IN REPAIRING PROPERTY LEASED BY PLAINfTIFF. Appeal from McCracken Circuit Court. L. D. Husbands, Circuit Judg’d.. Judgment for plaintiff. Defendants appeal. 1. It certainly can not be the law that if a landlord employs an independent contractor to< make repairs or improvements on a building occupied by a tenant, however necessary, and when said repairs or improvements' would not in themselves work a nuisance, or necessarily result in an injury to the tenant, that the landlord thereby becomes liable for every…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Chief Justice Hobson.
Affirming.
Appellants, Nahm & Friedman, made the following lease to appellee:
“This lease made and entered into this 1st day of July, 1901, by and between Joseph L. Friedman and Max B. Nahm, of the first part, and the Register Newspaper Company, of Paducah, Ky., of the second part:
“Witnesseth: That, for and in consideration of the payment by the second parties to the first parties of the sum of four hundred and seventy-five ($475.00) dollars per year, payable in equal monthly installments at the end of each month from date hereof during a period of five years from…
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