Custer v. Coward

Miller, Judge.

After their five-year-old daughter Mikayla was bitten by a dog owned by Joffery and Latoya Coward, Christopher and Shelley Custer brought the current action, seeking compensatory and punitive damages. They now appeal from the trial court’s order granting summary judgment to the Cowards. The Custers argue that the trial court erred in (1) holding that the dog’s prior act of aggression did not place the appellees on notice of the likelihood that the dog would bite someone; (2) finding that the appellees could not be liable because the dog had not actually bitten someone before the…