Raymond v. Hodgson
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Tort, under the Pub. Sts. c. 102, § 93, to recover double the amount of damages alleged to have been sustained from the bite of a dog. At the trial in the Superior Court, before Sherman, J., the jury returned a verdict for the defendants; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions, which appear in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtLathrop, J.
This is an action under the Pub. Sts. c. 102, § 93. At the trial, it appeared that the plaintiff’s dog and the defendants’ dog became engaged in a fight, though whether it was on the street or on the plaintiff’s premises was in dispute; and it was also in controversy which dog began the fight.
The plaintiff testified that his dog was making great outcries; that he rushed up to the dogs, looked for a collar on the defendants’ dog, and, seeing none, seized the defendants’ dog by the tail, and pulled it away from his dog; and that, as the dogs became separated, the defendants’ dog bit his hand,…
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