Turner v. Duggin

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice Moseley

Oscar was an eleven-year-old blue heeler mix canine owned by Timothy Ray Turner áñd his wife, Paula Kaye Turner. While the Turners were away on vacation, Oscar escaped their yard through a gate inadvertently left open by Paula’s ' teenaged daughter, Makayela Fuller, and bit passerby Jennifer Duggin, causing her significant and irreparable injury. Duggins brought suit wherein she alleged that the Turners were negligent in the supervision and confinement of the- dog (including negligent entrustment of that responsibility to a child), in exercising ordinary care…