Case ID: ohio-cc-dec_21/html/0174-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "SWING, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

LANDLORD AND TENANT.
    [Hamilton (1st) Circuit Court,
    January 23, 1909.]
    Swing, Giffen and Smith., JJ.
    Grau et al. v. Longworth.
    Deteriobation oe Premises no Cause for Tenant’s Vacation Unless Unfit-fob Occupancy.
    The fact that premises have deteriorated does not afford a tenant sufficient reason for quitting them, unless it appears that they have become unfit for occupancy for the purposes for which they were leased.
    [Syllabus approved by the court.]
    Error .to Hamilton common pleas court.
    Colon Schott, for plaintiff in error.
    Ernst, Cassatt & McDougall, for defendant in error.
   SWING, J.

The evidence in this case does not tend to show that the building leased by Grau from Longworth was destroyed or so injured by the elements or other cause so as to be unfit for occupancy; and the court was right in instructing a verdict for the plaintiff. The evidence tends-to show that the repairs made on the building made the premises less desirable for the business that plaintiff in error was engaged in, but this is not sufficient ground under the statute to authorize the tenant to quit the premises. The premises must be made unfit for occupancy and there was no evidence which tends to show this.

Judgment affirmed.

Giffen and Smith, JJ., concur.