Plant v. Podesta

In the appeal of these consolidated cases, a dog-bite victim seeks reversal of a final judgment entered after a jury’s finding of no liability on the part of appellee dog owners. The dog owners cross-appeal the court’s subsequent denial of their motion to tax costs. Finding the trial court properly denied the plaintiff’s motion for a directed verdict as to liability, we affirm the trial court’s final judgment. Both the plaintiff’s provocation of the dog and the prominence and readability of the posted warning sign were questions properly to be determined by the triers of fact. Reed v. Bowen,…