Ripple v. Mahoning National Bank

When this case was admitted to this court on motion to certify the record for review, the writer of this concurring opinion felt that the rule of liability or nonliability of a landlord for injury to his tenant or those in privity with the tenant, because of the dangerous condition of the premises let, as applied to that relationship with reference to a modern office building occupied by many different individual tenants, each occupying a relatively small portion of the building, should be re-examined.

The appellant stoutly maintains that because of the claimed extension of the exercise of…