Arbuckle Realty Trust v. Rosson
| Decision Date | 20 April 1937 |
| Docket Number | Case Number: 25286 |
| Citation | 67 P.2d 444,1937 OK 270,180 Okla. 20 |
| Parties | ARBUCKLE REALTY TRUST v. ROSSON |
| Court | Oklahoma Supreme Court |
¶0 1. LANDLORD AND TENANT - No Implied Warranty of Fitness of Leased Premises for Use Intended.
There is no implied warranty that leased premises are fit for the purpose for which they are rented.
2. SAME - Rule of Caveat Emptor Applicable to Leases in Absence of Warranty.
In the absence of warranty, deceit, or fraud, the rule of caveat emptor applies to leases of real estate, the control of which passes to the tenant, and it is the duty of the tenant to make examination of the demised premises to determine their safety and adaptability to the purposes for which they were hired.
3. APPEAL AND ERROR - Reversible Error in Instructions.
Where an erroneous charge prejudicing the rights of the party complaining is given and exception is saved, the judgment will be reversed.
Appeal from District Court, Murray County; W.G. Long, Judge.
Action by the Arbuckle Realty Trust against Ed Rosson and Fred E. Hysell. Judgment for defendants, and plaintiff appeals. Reversed.
John A. Haste and Ernest B. Lykins, for plaintiff in error.
H.W. Broadbent, for defendants in error.
¶1 Arbuckle Realty Trust instituted an action in the district court of Murray County, Okla., against Ed Rosson and Fred E. Hyse'l to recover certain rentals on certain real estate, and for damages for failure to observe the terms of the lease contract. The defendants admitted the execution of the grazing lease, and admitted that they went into possession of the property under the lease, but allege they never had exclusive or peaceable possession of the lands because the same were unfenced and the cattle of other people trespassed thereon. The judgment of the court, based upon the verdict of the jury, was for the defendants.
¶2 There is only one assignment of error which need be noticed, since it is necessary to reverse the judgment of the trial court because thereof. The court gave an instruction relating to the implied warranty of fitness for use which reads as follows:
"You are further instructed that there is an implied covenant in every lease contract that the lessor will deliver possession of the premises at the beginning of the term, and are further told in this connection that if you find from a fair preponderance of the evidence that the plaintiff did not deliver possession of the property to the defendants in that the fence along the northwest corner of said place at the time of the execution of the lease had been removed, and that said lands could not be used for grazing or pasturing by reason of said fence having been removed prior to the time of the execution of the lease, then you will find for the defendants."
¶3 The law of this state is, as has been announced by this court in prior decisions, there is no implied warranty of fitness for the use for which the property is...
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