A 73-year-old tenant has won a battle in B.C. Supreme Court to overturn an order to evict her from her two-bedroom rental apartment.

Janet Fraser challenged two decisions by B.C.'s Residential Tenancy Branch (RTB) that she said wrongly accepted her landlord's "good faith" and did not take into account the "possibility of a dishonest ulterior purpose."

Fraser rents an apartment in an eight-unit rental building with her 69-year-old partner Jerry, who is deaf and suffers from Stage 4 cancer and multiple sclerosis, according to the ruling.

The ruling does not state which city Fraser lives in. It was handed down in a New Westminster court.

She's lived in the apartment for more than 20 years and pays $780 in rent, which Judge Sandra Sukstorf described as "significantly below-market."

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