Court Opinion

ID: 9859007
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-24 18:01:34.152728+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T10:17:05.084651
License: Public Domain

Currie, J.
{concurring). Merely because sec. 101.06, Stats., may have made the landlord, Jacobs, and the tenant employer, Rasmussen Drug Company, jointly liable for the damages arising by reason of the personal injuries sustained by Mrs. Voreck, it does not necessarily mean that if the landlord pays all of the damages he is entitled to contribution from the tenant. Under the terms of the lease the landlord and tenant may have placed the sole liability for curing the defects on the premises, which caused Mrs. Voreck’s injuries, on the landlord, and not the tenant.
This case comes to us on demurrer to the complaint and I agree with the majority decision that the complaint states a cause of action for contribution, and therefore the demurrer was properly overruled by the trial court. However, after the defendant has answered and trial is held on the merits, it may develop that the injuries to Mrs. Voreck were caused by defects to the premises which were the sole responsibility of the lessor, in which case plaintiff would then not be entitled to. recover contribution from the defendant tenant.