Keller v. Holiday Inns, Inc.

BURNETT, Judge.

We are asked to decide whether a property owner who rents space in a building to a business lessee, and who authorizes the lessee to bring unsafe appliances upon the property, may be liable to the lessee’s employees for harm caused by the appliances. The principal parties claiming injury are Gail Keller and her sister, Joan Keller Bur-man. When the alleged injuries occurred, the Keller sisters were employed by the proprietor of a gift shop located upon leased space within the Holiday Inn of Boise. The appliances in question were large iron security gates fabricated and placed…