Maglio v. Lane

This is an action of tort whereby the plaintiff, at the time a child under two years of age, seeks to recover damages alleged to have been received from the bite of a dog. The substitute declaration upon which the ease was tried contained four counts; one charged the defendant as owner, the second, as keeper, of the dog which bit the plaintiff on October 26, 1927; the third and fourth contained similar charges for a bite on October 28, 1927. There was testimany from the mother of the plaintiff tending to show that, as the two were walking on the street on October 26, the dog of the defendant…