Gledhill v. Harvey

“A landlord is not an insurer, but he is under a legal duty to keep the rented premises in repair, a-nd is liable in damages to a person who receives injury while lawfully upon the premises and who is in the exercise of due care, if the injury arises . . because of his failure to repair defects of which he knows or in the exercise of reasonable diligence ought to know.” *324Ross v. Jackson, 123 Ga. 657 (51 S. E. 578). It is true that he is not liable to a tenant for injuries “arising from a patent defect in the premises, existing at the time of the lease, and of which the tenant knew or had means…