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DRAFT FOR ATTORNEY REVIEW — NOT FINAL

Favreau v. Miller, 591 A.2d 68 (1991)

Citation
Favreau v. Miller, 591 A.2d 68 (1991)
Parent Document
Favreau v. Miller, 591 A.2d 68 (1991)
Jurisdiction
Vermont (state)
Effective Date
1991-03-29

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Young v. Garwacki, 380 Mass. at 168, 402 N.E.2d at 1049. The import of the trial court's charge is that a tenant who confronts an unsafe stairway in an old building must make it safe or use extraordinary care to negotiate it despite its unsafe condition. In essence, the language puts us back in the situation where the landlord has little, if any, liability because the tenant accepts the risk by renting the apartment. We directly rejected that theory in Beck v. Dutra, 129 Vt. 615, 618, 285 A.2d 732, 735 (1971), where we held that a tenant does not assume the risk of injury from a dangerous stairway because use of the stairway was a "necessitous action ... and not a deliberate act involving a voluntary choice within the meaning of the doctrine."