Brown v. Bolduc

This is a dogbite case. Gail Brown, the victim, aged thirty-two at the time of the accident, brought her action against Sonia Bolduc, aged twenty-nine, and Sonia’s parents, Jacqueline and Daniel Bolduc. Upon trial, Gail had a verdict and judgment against Sonia on the basis of the dogbite statute, G. L. c. 140, § 155, as amended by St. 1968, c. 281, set out in the margin.2 At the close of her case against the parents claiming negligence as well as breach of the statute, the judge directed a verdict for the parents, and Gail takes her appeal from the judgment against her.

On February 27, 1983,…