Legal Opinion
Collier v. Zambito
New York Court of Appeals
Decided February 17, 2004PublishedCited by 240 opinions
POINTS OF COUNSEL
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
CIPARICK, J.
Defendants Charles and Mary Zambito own Cecil, a beagle-collie-rottweiler mixed breed dog that they keep as a family pet. Defendants customarily confined Cecil to the kitchen area, behind a gate, when they were away from home and when visitors came, because he would bark. On the night of December 31, 1998, 12-year-old Matthew Collier was a guest of the defendants’ son, Daniel. He had been to the defendants’ home on several previous occasions, and on that evening had been upstairs with Daniel and several other children. When Matthew came downstairs to use the…
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- Rider v. . WhiteNew York Court of Appeals · 1875
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