Floyd v. Jarrell

BRITT, Judge.

Did the trial court err in allowing defendant’s motion for directed verdict? We answer in the negative.

In 5 Strong, N. C. Index 2d, Landlord and Tenant, § 8, pp. 162-163, we find:

“The lessor is not ordinarily liable to a tenant, or the tenant’s sublessee, family, servants, or guests, for personal injuries resulting from disrepair, or patent defects, even when the lessor is under a contractual obligation in his lease to keep the premises in repair, or even if the dangerous condition had been brought to the lessor’s attention and he had agreed to repair the same, or the lessor had…