Eigner v. Race

Plaintiff appeals from a judgment of non-suit rendered upon defendants’ motion made at the close of plaintiff’s case.

The complaint herein contained two causes of action, the first of which charged that defendants were in control of a large, active and powerful Great Dane dog, which prior to the time of the accident here in question was accustomed to violently jump upon and against children and adults and to “fawn violently upon them and knock them off their feet”; that defendants were acquainted with and knew of these facts. It was then alleged that upon the date of the accident, in the city…