Ortega v. Flaim

GOLDEN, Chief Justice.

A social guest of landlord’s tenant sustained personal injuries after falling down stairs at the tenant’s residential dwelling. The social guest sued landlord for damages. Relying on the common law’s general rule of landlord’s immunity from liability, however, the district court granted landlord’s motion for summary judgment. The social guest appealed, presenting this court with the primary issue of whether Wyoming will abandon the common law rules governing landlord liability as set forth in Restatement (Second) of ToRts §§ 356-362 (1965) and adopt a duty of reasonable…