Collins v. Otto

The parties appear here as in the trial court and will be so referred to or by name.

The plaintiff was a four-year-old child who, through his mother as next friend, brought suit against the de fendants. He alleged defendants owned and wrongfully harbored a coyote, a wild animal of vicious propensities, and that on May 22, 1960, the child was attacked and bitten by the coyote and seriously injured.

Trial to a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment for defendants, from which the plaintiff seeks reversal by writ of error.

In the trial of the case the testimony was not in any material aspect…