Irwin v. Willis

Duckworth, Presiding Justice.

(After stating the foregoing facts.) Counsel for the plaintiffs in error very strongly insist that upon this record it should be held as a matter of law that Mrs. Annie Lee Irwin is not liable. In the view we take it is entirely unnecessary to go exhaustively into a consideration of the various legal principles relating to the general subject of liability of a landlord for injuries sustained upon premises in the exclusive possession of a tenant. It is provided in the Code, § 105-103, that “When the law requires one to do an act for the benefit of another, or to…