Hood v. Waldrum

. TODD, J.

In these consolidated cases Malcolm Hood, Jr., and Christine Hood, defendants, have appealed in error from separate verdicts and judgments in favor of plaintiffs, R. C. Waldrum and Mrs. Lula Waldrum, for damages resulting from an alleged attack upon Mrs. Waldrum by defendants’ dog.

The salient facts are uncontroverted. The defendants are husband and wife. They reside in a semi-rural situation in which three homes are grouped in close proximity with no other houses in “hollering distance”. For about nine years, the defendants have owned a large dog, which is kept as a pet and, to some…