Sorimachi Takashi and Matsushima Nanako were ordered to pay JPY 3.85m as damages to a real estate management company on 14 May at Tokyo District Court after the company filed a lawsuit against the couple for damages of JPY 52.2m. The case arose from an incident in May 2011 at the apartment block where the couple live in. The couple's dog which was with their daughter at the time of the incident, bit a female neighbour's leg and caused the latter to suffer injuries and move out of the estate before the end of the rental period as she was traumatised by the attack. As a result, the company sued the couple for the loss of rental income which would have been paid by the neighbour. The judge ruled that the couple only needed to pay JPY 3.85m which included legal fees for the company and two months' worth of rent that the company had chose to waive for the neighbour when she moved out prematurely even though she had been liable to pay that as a penalty for terminating the rental contract early.
Source: Sponichi
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