Mease Ex Rel. Oliver v. Fox

REYNOLDSON, Justice.

Plaintiff landlord brought this action in Des Moines municipal court to recover three months’ rent from defendant tenants, who had vacated the leased home. Defendants’ answer denied their default on the rental contract and that plaintiff owned the claim. By later amendments, defendants affirmatively alleged the house when leased was in a state of disrepair and violated the municipal housing code and that plaintiff violated his duty (upon renting the premises for occupancy by human beings) to repair promptly and correct all conditions which rendered the premises unsafe,…