Dorgan v. Loukas

Except for a possible cavil regarding the award of fees for the plaintiffs’ (tenants’) attorneys, this appeal of the defendants (landlords) is without merit.

1. The defendants were seriously at fault in failing to bring the plaintiffs’ apartment into habitable condition and to keep it so. Most grievous among the defects was the lamentable condition of the oil fired furnace and connected heating apparatus, which was supposed to deliver clean heat to the apartment, but in fact corrupted it and all within it with clinging soot. Responsibility in the matter, fastened on the landlord by the State…