Carter v. Carolina Realty Co.

It is the duty of the owner of an apartment house to keep that part of the premises of which he retains control for the use ■ of all tenants in a reasonably safe condition. In the absence of any agreement on the subject, a landlord’s duty to his tenant with respect to a common passageway in a house consisting of several tenements is to keep such passageway in the condition it was in at the time of the letting, 10 R. C. L., p. 1040, and in 36 C. J., p. 215, we find the law stated as follows: “On the analogy of the lack of a common-law duty on the part of a landlord to light common passageways,…