Perrotta v. Picciano
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the defendant, Liberte Picciano, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the plaintiff, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Bronx on the 22d day of June, 1918, upon the verdict of a jury for $3,000, and also from an order entered in said clerk’s office on the 28th day of June, 1918, denying defendant’s motion for a new trial made upon the minutes.
1Opinion of the Court
Shearn, J.:
This action was brought to recover damages for the death of a nine-year-old boy, caused by his being attacked and mangled by two dogs owned by the defendant. The defendant resided at No. 230 East One Hundred and Fifty-first street, in the borough of Manhattan. Adjoining his back yard on the east was the back yard of a vacant house, No. 234, of which vacant house the defendant was the watchman. The back yard of No. 234 was surrounded by a board fence about five feet in height. In the fence between defendant’s yard and the yard back of the adjoining vacant premises there was an…
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