Cengage Advantage Books: Law for Business 18th Edition by John Ashcroft ,Janet Ashcroft

Exercise 14

Kim Young, a minor, decided to move out of her parents' house and live on her own. She was employed full-time, so she leased an apartment from Phillip Weaver. She moved in, paid the rent and security deposit, and lived in the apartment for almost three months. Young's parents kept her room waiting for her and repeatedly asked her to return. Young moved back to her parents' home eight months before the lease expired and stopped paying rent. Weaver sued her for unpaid rent. Young argued the apartment was not a necessary and thus she was not bound by the lease. Was she?