Hartson Partnership v. Goodwin

The Mobile Home Landlord-Tenant Act permits *229a landlord to evict a tenant or occupant for “[ejngaging in ‘criminal activity’ ” that threatens the health, safety, or welfare of the landlord’s tenants.1 Where an occupant other than the tenant engages in such activity, the landlord is not entitled to relief against the tenant under the unlawful detainer statutes. Because the tenant here asserts that he was not engaged in criminal activity, we reverse the trial court’s grant of relief to the landlord at the show cause hearing and remand for trial.

Mike Goodwin has been a tenant in the Des Moines…