Wistafka v. Grotowski
Appellate Court of Illinois
Appeal from the Superior Court of Cook county; the Hon. M. L. McKinley, Judge, presiding. Heard in the Branch Appellate Court at the October term, 1915. Certiorari denied by Supreme Court (making opinion final).
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Taylor
This is an appeal by the defendant, from a judgment in a suit brought by a minor, by her next friend, for damages which were alleged to be the result of the defendant permitting a dog owned or kept by him to run at large, in the city, without being muzzled, in violation of a city ordinance. The case has been tried three times and a verdict rendered in favor of the plaintiff in each instance.
On June 18, 1909, Marcella Wistafka, at that time a child about nine years of age, was bitten by a dog, which was unleashed and unmuzzled, while she was crossing some vacant lots on her way to school, and…
2Cases cited5 opinions
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- H. Channon Co. v. HahnIllinois Supreme Court · 1901
- Cada v. FairAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914
- Behrle v. HustAppellate Court of Illinois · 1916
- Wistafka v. GrotowskiAppellate Court of Illinois · 1914
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