Apostol-Athanasiou v. White

Deen, Presiding Judge.

This case is an action in tort, involves a dog, and “reflects distinctive . . . animated activity” 1 in its unusual and unfortunate factual particulars.

On June 9, 1983, the appellant, Helen Apostol-Athanasiou, hired Gregory White as an independent contractor to mow her lawn. Because White was apprehensive of the appellant’s two dogs that were kept in her fenced backyard, the appellant placed one dog in the house and restrained the other with a chain. Prior to mowing the yard and in response to the appellant’s warning about possible sticks and rocks in the yard, White…