Reed v. Harvey

This is a law action to recover for personal injuries resulting from an attack by defendants’ dog. Trial ended in a jury verdict and judgment of $3344.40 for plaintiff. Defendants have appealed.

Plaintiff is a near neighbor of defendants in Waterloo. About 8:30 a.m. on September 11, 1958, defendants’ collie ran into plaintiff’s yard with a 20-foo-t chain around his neck. In an apparent attempt to protect several small children from the dog plaintiff grasped the chain, went to defendants’ front steps and called Mrs. Harvey three times. The dog leaped on plain tiff and bit her on her right arm…