Statutes & Selected Cases
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Minnesota Statutes
Landlord-tenant Statute, Chapter 504B
Manufactured Home Statute, Chapter 327C
Kari Koskinen Act (Statute regulating caretaker/manager hiring)
Selected Minnesota Landlord-Tenant Cases
Tenant.net selected cases
This website reprints in electronic form the following three important cases:
- Strupp v. Canniff, 276 Minn. 558; 150 N.W.2d 574 (1967)
- Oesterreicher v. Robertson, 187 Minn. 497, 245 N.W. 825 (1932)
- Fritz v. Warthen, 298 Minn. 54, 213 N.W.2d 339 (1973)
The following link is to a copy of a case setting out the Minnesota rule on liquidated damages, including late fees as liquidated damages. The part printed in blue is the statement of the legal rule:
The following link is to a copy of a case dealing with a type of waiver created by repeated acceptance of late payments:
The following link is to a copy of a federal case holding that when a landlord takes a security deposit, the landlord does not own the money and owe it back to the tenant. Instead the money is still the tenant’s but is being held by the landlord pending the end of the tenancy. This indicates that by going bankrupt a Minnesota landlord does not discharge his duty to return the security deposit to his residential tenant.
The following link is to a copy of the Minnesota case holding that a sale of premises by the landlord does not end the lease. Rather the lease transfers to the buyer and both tenant & buyer/new landlord must honor the lease. The parts printed in blue state the legal rule.
The following link is to a copy of a case governing the consequences of a landlord not sending a security-deposit-disposition letter within the three-week deadline of Minn. Stat. sec. 504B.178.
