Schweiger v. Superior Court

Opinion

MOSK, J.

Petitioner is a tenant in a 19-unit apartment building owned by real party in interest, John Bonds. He has occupied the apartment for *510four years by virtue of a month-to-month oral agreement with Bonds. Initially, the rent paid by petitioner was $60 per month, but by February 1969 it had been gradually increased to $75 per month.

On June 16, 1969, petitioner sent a letter to Bonds requesting, pursuant to Civil Code sections 1941 and 1942,1 that Bonds repair two longstanding dilapidations of petitioner’s apartment—two broken windows and a broken back door that could not be locked.…