Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Citation
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Parent Document
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Jurisdiction
- Massachusetts (state)
- Effective Date
- 2001-05-13
Other Sections in This Document (27)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
- Ruiz v. Pelson Realty Trust, 13 Mass. L. Rptr. 346 (2001)
Full Text
1,633 charsThe results reached by this Court in the Sullivan and Egenlauf cases to bar guests or visitors from asserting a cause of action for breach of the implied warranty of habitability are rooted in the observation in Hemingway that the warranty arises out of the contractual relationship between the tenant and the landlord. “Alease is essentially a contract between the landlord and the tenant wherein the landlord promises to deliver and maintain the demised premises in habitable condition and the tenant promises to pay rent for such habitable premises.” Hemingway, 363 Mass. at 198. As the Supreme Judicial Court observed in Anderson v. Fox Hill Village Homeowners Corp., 424 Mass. 365, 368 (1997), “failure to perform a contractual obligation is not a tort in the absence of a duty to act apart from the promise made.” Accord, Vaughan v. Eastern Edison Co., 48 Mass.App.Ct. 225 (1999) (pedestrian injured when struck by an automobile while crossing a street on a college campus that was not lit due to the utility company’s failure to abide by the terms of its contract with the college could not maintain an action against the utility company). See also Redgrave v. Boston Symphony Orchestra, 557 F.Sup. 230, 238 (D.Mass. 1983) (“[A] breach of contract is not, standing alone, a tort as well”). However, there is a settled exception to the rule that supplies the doctrinal underpinning for the result in Mitchell-Gionet and in this case. Section 324A of the Restatement (Second) of Torts, which concerns the liability to third parties for the negligent performance of certain contractual obligations, provides, in part, as follows: