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Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)

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Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Parent Document
Gore v. People's Savings Bank, 235 Conn. 360 (1995)
Jurisdiction
Connecticut (state)
Effective Date
1995-10-10

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In Richwind v. Brunson, 335 Md. 661, 645 A.2d 1147 (1994), the Court of Appeals of Maryland addressed a question quite similar to the one in this case and adopted the approach of § 17.6 of the Restatement (Second) of Property. The relevant facts of Richwind are as follows. In late 1983, Barbara Richardson moved into a residential rental property in the city of Baltimore. After moving into that property, she gave birth to a child in 1984 and another child in 1985. In early 1986, the owner of the property, Richwind Joint Venture (Richwind), hired Scoken Management Corporation (Scoken), to assume the management of the property. At that time, the president of Scoken knew that buildings such as Richwind’s often contained lead-based paints, but he had no specific knowledge about the presence of lead in Richwind’s property or in Richardson’s particular unit. Soon after Scoken assumed the management of the property, Richardson forwarded to Scoken a series of complaints about the disrepair of her apartment, including the complaint “[p]aint and plaster peeling from walls.” Richwind v. Brunson, supra, 668. The president of Scoken responded to these complaints by dispatching workers to correct the problems, but he did not inspect the work himself to determine whether the repairs had been made adequately.