Pate v. Riverbend Mobile Home Village, Inc.

KnüDSON, J.:

Earline Pate appeals from the district court’s grant of summaiy judgment to Riverbend Mobile Home Village, Inc., (Riverbend) in a lawsuit brought by Pate to recover damages for personal injury. The issue before the district court and now on appeal concerns the duty a landlord owes a tenant for an unsafe condition on the leased premises.

On December 28, 1993, Earline Pate and her husband, Robert Pate, leased a mobile home and the lot on which the home was located from Riverbend. The written lease required the Pates to maintain the mobile home and yard.

On June 28, 1994, while playing…