Iowa Apartment House Co. v. Herschel
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action for damages to personal property.
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Hearing on an appeal by the defendants from a judgment of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, on verdict, in an action for damages to personal property. The Court in the opinion stated the facts as follows: Appeal from a judgment of the supreme court of the District of Columbia in favor of plaintiff in an action for damages to the goods of the plaintiff by reason of escaping steam from heating apparatus in an apartment “including steam heating,” leased by the defendants to the plaintiff. The undisputed facts are that the defendants, the Iowa Apartment House Company and the…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Robb
1. Bid the court err in denying the defendants’ motion for a directed verdict? It may be conceded as a general proposi*464tion that, in the absence of statute or express covenant or stipulation in the lease, there is no obligation on the part of the lessor to make ordinary repairs on the leased property. 24 Cyc. Law & Proc. p. 1081. But we are not dealing with an ordinary tenancy. The tenancy here relates to an apartment house, —a class of tenancy of comparatively recent origin, and one which, in some respects, at least, is to be distinguished from other classes.
The demised premises, by the…
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- Whitehead v. Comstock CompanySupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1903
- Bryant v. CarrAppellate Terms of the Supreme Court of New York · 1906
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