Legal Opinion
Callahan v. Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance
Massachusetts Appeals Court
Decided October 19, 2000No. 98-P-2311PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtKass, J.
Harley the dog has a sorry record of recidivism in biting people. In what appears to have been at least his fourth and possibly seventh attack, he mauled and seriously injured Dianne Moores while she was lawfully on premises at 316 Spring Street, Marshfield. Those premises belonged to Harley’s owners, Joan Cincotta and Michael Callahan. Moores had come to the Cincotta/Callahan place as a business invitee to measure their tennis court for seal coating. We are not, however, concerned with canine malfeasance but with whether, under the terms of its policy, the Quincy Mutual Fire Insurance Co.…
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- Eyler v. Nationwide Mutual Fire Insurance Co.Kentucky Supreme Court · 1992
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