CORDES v. WOOD

No. 81962.

918 P.2d 76 (1996)

Lois and Jeffery CORDES, Appellants, v. C.R. and Wilma WOOD, individuals and the Wood Family Trust, C.R. and Wilma Wood, Co-Trustees, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

May 28, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Randal D. Morley and Donna J. Priore, Birmingham, Morley, Weatherford, & Priore, Tulsa, for Appellants.

A. Mark Smiling and Scott R. Taylor, Tulsa, for Appellees.


SUMMERS, Justice.

A tenant was raped in her rented home when a stranger broke in through a locked door. She and her husband sued the landlord for maintaining ineffective locks. The trial court ordered summary judgment for landlord and the Court of Appeals affirmed. We find several material facts in controversy and reverse.

In 1990 Lois Cordes was raped in her duplex when an assailant gained entry through a side door...

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