Martinez v. Bernhard

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Breaux, J.

Plaintiffs sue for damages. Charles Martinez, the father of plaintiffs, was, on the 8th day of July, 1899, bitten by a dog *369belonging to Michel Bernhard, the defendant. On the seventeenth day of August following, Charles Martinez died.

Plaintiffs charge that defendant owned for his own use and pleasure a vicious and ferocious dog and allowed it to run at large, although defendant knew that he was vicious and ferocious; that while their father was passing on one of the public highways of the City of New Orleans, he was attacked by this vicious…