Mulliken ex rel. Mulliken v. Presley

DOUGLAS W. GREENE, Special Judge.

Defendant appeals from a judgment of the St. Louis County Circuit Court awarding plaintiff $2500.00 damages for personal injury. This is a dog bite case.

Defendant’s teen-age daughter had been given a Cairn Terrier puppy. The pup was kept at defendant’s home and was under his control. One afternoon the pup left the back yard where it was kept and went to the front yard of a neighbor, William Mulliken. Carol Mulliken, William’s daughter, played with the puppy and petted it for a period of about five minutes. The pup then went to the next door neighbor’s yard…