Groner v. Hedrick

Opinion by

Me. Justice Bok,

First Friend, as Kipling called Wild Dog, was in this case a large Great Dane named “Sleepy”. It jumped up on the plaintiff, who was seventy-four years old, five feet two in height, and 105 pounds in weight, and knocked her down so that she broke her arm and leg. The jury gave her $17,000 but the court *150below entered judgment for defendants n.o.v., on the theory that plaintiff had assumed the risk of Sleepy’s temperament. A motion for a new trial was also filed but not disposed of.

What happened was that defendants hired plaintiff to come and be housekeeper and…