Harris v. Hoyt
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Appeal from an order of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee-county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages resulting from being bitten by a. dog kept by the defendant. August 5, 1914, plaintiff desired' to visit a Mrs. Harrow, who lived upstairs in a duplex flat, the lower flat being occupied by the defendant. A common door-opened from the street into a vestibule three or four feet deep and eight feet wide.
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Appeal from an order of tlie circuit court for Milwaukee-county: J. C. Ludwig, Circuit Judge. Action to recover damages resulting from being bitten by a. dog kept by the defendant. August 5, 1914, plaintiff desired' to visit a Mrs. Harrow, who lived upstairs in a duplex flat, the lower flat being occupied by the defendant. A common door-opened from the street into a vestibule three or four feet deep and eight feet wide. Erom this common vestibule the door to-tbe right led to tbe flat of tbe defendant and tbe door to tbe left to tbe flat upstairs occupied by Mrs. Narrow. Tbe two ■doors were…
1Opinion of the CourtVinje, J.
Defendant correctly contends that sec. 1620,. Stats. 1913, does not impose upon tbe owner or keeper of a dog an absolute liability to respond in damages to any one bitten by it no matter under wbat circumstances. Tbe section provides:
“Tbe owner or keeper of any dog wbicb shall have injured' or caused tbe injury of any person or property or- killed, wounded or worried any horses, cattle, sheep or lambs shall be-liable to tbe person so injured and tbe owner of such animals for all damages so done, without proving notice to tbe owner or keeper of such dog or knowledge by him that bis dog…
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