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Joyner v. Jonathan Woodner Co., 479 A.2d 308 (1984)

Citation
Joyner v. Jonathan Woodner Co., 479 A.2d 308 (1984)
Parent Document
Joyner v. Jonathan Woodner Co., 479 A.2d 308 (1984)
Jurisdiction
DC (municipal)
Effective Date
1984-07-06

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. Appellants also contend that the trial court erred in not instructing the jury that the tenants’ failure to provide access and the resulting breach of the lease could be excused if substantial housing code violations were found to have existed at Park Towers. The presence of housing code violations, argue appellants, prevented them from complying with their obligations under the lease. While correctly reciting the firmly established principle of contract law that prevention by one party excuses performance by the other, Horlick v. Wright,