Donahue v. Pease

On March 20, 1937, during the daytime, the plaintiff, a boy about sixteen years of age, who was a house-to-house peddler, was bitten by the defendant's German police dog while leaving the premises of the defendant. The boy had gone to the kitchen door of the defendant's house, which is about 50 feet from the highway, and having been told by a maid that none of his merchandise was wanted, was proceeding easterly on the driveway of the premises toward the highway, Bloomfield Avenue, in the town of West Hartford, and had reached a point about 20 feet from the house, when the defendant…