A Kansas City landlord with a habit of filing eviction complaints and counting on tenants not to show up in court didn’t count on one of them fighting back.

And in a rare instance of a tenant winning a complete victory, a Jackson County judge has ordered the landlord to pay back 15 months of rental payments to the tenant plus interest and attorney’s fees — an amount totaling more than $17,000.

The underlying facts were especially egregious – the landlord neglected extensive electrical and plumbing repairs – but a lawyer who represented the tenant said the case shows that tenants are not defenseless when faced with a landlord who ignores safety issues.

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