Streep v. Simpson’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. ““Very large - numbers of people- live in tenement houses,, apartment houses.and apartment"hotels,-in.this city.- Such'tenants- have,. and can have, control only of the inside of their own limited, demised premises. Conditions unknown'to the ancient common law- are thus created. This requires elasticity in the application. of the principles thereof. An intolerable condition' which the tenant neither causes nor can remedy seems to me warrants the application of the doctrine of constructive eviction. The rule in Jacobs v. Morand (supra), in regard to bugs and ants within the apartment, which can be dealt' with by the tenant by processes known to all housewives, should not be extended to cover offensive and unbearable nuisances outside of the apartment.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 234 Mo. App. 802 - Ray Realty Co. v. Holtzman