McGuire v. Ringrose
Supreme Court of Louisiana
APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhies, J. Defendant is responsible in damages for the injury inflicted upon plaintiff while on the public highway by defendant’s dog. C. C. 2316, 2317. 2321. The fact that the dog was chained during the day and loose at night, justifies the presumption that defendant know the vicious character of the animal.
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APPEAL from the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans. Voorhies, J. Defendant is responsible in damages for the injury inflicted upon plaintiff while on the public highway by defendant’s dog. C. C. 2316, 2317. 2321. The fact that the dog was chained during the day and loose at night, justifies the presumption that defendant know the vicious character of the animal. Buckley vs. Loonard, 4 Denio, 500. The owner of an animal must keep him so that ho shall not commit injury; and when such an animal .does damago, the owner is liable, although it be shown that the animal had never before…
1Opinion of the Court
Tlip. opinion of tlie Court was delivered by
Watkins, J.
Tlie plaintiff is a washerwoman, depending for her living, and that of one minor child, upon her daily earnings, who occupied a rented room of a boarding- bouse on St. Charles street, in the City of New Orleans, and which has an entrance on Church street that passes immediately in the rear. Nearly opposite this entrance are the defendant’s stables, where his horses are kept; and his residence is only two doors from the boarding-house.
On tlie morning of the 14th of November, 1885, plaintiff left her place of abode on her way to her daily…
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