Harris v. Rootstown Township Zoning Board of Appeals

The subject of this intensely contested appeal is a domestic animal which has been immortalized in the prose and poetry of many nations and for myriad years as man’s best friend, the dog.

Perhaps the best known and most quoted in our age is the Eulogy on the Dog by Senator George Graham Vest recorded in Johnson County Circuit Court at Warrens-burg, Missouri, in which the dog was extolled as:

“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. A man’s dog stands by him in…