White ex rel. Carter v. Whitworth

GLICKSTEIN, Judge.

This is an appeal, by a minor plaintiff, from a final judgment following the entry of a post-verdict order, granting the defendants’ motion for directed verdict. We reverse and remand with direction to reinstate the jury verdict and to enter final judgment, nunc pro tunc, from the date of said verdict.

The plaintiff was injured by a pit bull owned by the defendants’ daughter and kept by her in one of two apartments in a duplex owned by the defendants. There was evidence that the defendants had actual knowledge of the dog’s dangerous propensities and that the defendants had…