McCloud v. McLaughlin

OPINION BY

OLSZEWSKI, J.:

¶ 1 In the early morning hours of March 10, 2001, May McCloud suffered injuries as a result of an interaction with a one-hundred-pound female Rottweiler. At the time of the incident, Mrs. McCloud was a 67-year-old widow and was walking to her job. Defendant John Stanley testified at trial that he was walking the dog and had the dog leashed, but that the dog somehow got loose. The dog then ran off and jumped upon Mrs. McCloud. While the dog did not bite Mrs. McCloud, the force of the dog’s jump knocked her down and caused multiple fractures of her left wrist as well as…