Fields v. Thompson

Sognier, Judge.

Steve Fields brought suit against William Thompson seeking damages for injuries Fields incurred when he was attacked and bitten by Thompson’s mixed breed dog. The trial court granted Thompson’s motion for summary judgment and Fields appeals.

OCGA § 51-2-7, as amended effective July 1, 1985, provides: “A person who owns or keeps a vicious or dangerous animal of any kind and who, by careless management or by allowing the animal to go at liberty, causes injury to another person who does not provoke the injury by his own act may be liable in damages to the person so injured. In…