TOWNSEND, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) A lessee may, by express lease provision, release a lessor from liability as the result of damage to person or property which is due to the negligence of the landlord or which he would otherwise have a duty, imposed by statute, to prevent. Conceding that, in the absence of a contrary stipulation, the duty would rest upon the landlord here to repair the roof immediately over a portion of the premises rented to the plaintiff...
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