Perez-Sandi v. Berges

Defendant appeals from a judgment condemning her to pay to plaintiff $500 as damages for personal injuries sustained by plaintiff due to his having been bitten by a dog alleged to have been owned or harbored by defendant. Defendant admits that plaintiff was bitten by the dog and seriously injured, but denies that she is responsible upon the ground that she was not the owner of the dog, which it is alleged was a gentle and not a vicious dog, and that plaintiff’s injuries were entirely due to his own fault in that he “insisted on attacking said dog and was bitten by said dog only after he had…