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Q: Through an exterior door, I entered the facility. On an interior
staircase, I slipped and fell on water, maybe because rainwater had entered
through the doorway and collected on the stairs. My friend says that because
the property is leased from a landlord who is ‘out-of-possession’, I can sue
only the facility.
A: Often, a building owner will argue that, as an out-of-possession
landlord, he or she was not responsible for the conditions that caused an
accident. One looks at the lease. In language that is not always entirely clear,
the lease may obligate the landlord to maintain the public portions of the
building, interior and exterior, and require the tenant to make nonstructural
repairs. In the lease, perhaps the owner reserves the right to re-enter the
premises for purposes of inspecting them and making repairs.
Your lawyer may well be able to establish that the lease requires the
landlord to maintain and repair the structural elements, such as the exterior
door, doorway, and stairwell – and moreover that the landlord either created
the defective conditions, or had actual or constructive notice of them. The
owner may well fail to demonstrate that it was an out-of-possession landlord
without any duty to maintain the subject exterior door, doorway, and
stairwell.
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