Feister v. Bosack

In this action for damages for injuries sustained as a result of a dog bite, plaintiff appeals the grant of summary disposition to defendant Edward Runyon, lessor of residential property to defendant Gordon Bosack, the dog’s owner. We affirm.

Bosack and his wife occupied Runyon’s single-*21family home pursuant to a month-to-month oral lease. When Mrs. Bosack, the initial tenant, first leased the home in 1984, she did not own a dog. The Bosacks acquired their dog in 1987 or 1988. Runyon knew about the dog, although he never expressly permitted the Bosacks to keep it. Just two days before…