Tenant's friend sued landlord for negligence after he fell from the building roof. The friend had visited tenant at the building 10 to 20 times and sometimes stayed overnight. One night he visited tenant, but tenant threw him out of the apartment because of his behavior. The friend went up to the building roof, somehow fell off, and ended up in the hospital. Landlord asked the court to dismiss the case without a trial, claiming that it wasn't responsible. The friend claimed that he wouldn't have been able to go on the roof if it had been properly secured. But the friend got up to the roof from inside the building after being...
Landlord not responsible for tenant's friend's fall from roof.
Position: | LANDLORD'S NEGLIGENCE |
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