Lindley v. Knowlton

O. P. Bindley and his wife, Lillian S. Bindley, sued defendant for damages on account of personal injuries, alleged to have been sustained by Mrs. Bindley because of fright occasioned by the appearance and acts of a chimpanzee owned by Knowlton. The complaint contained allegations that the animal was so negligently kept by defendant that it escaped from restraint and entered the dwelling-house of plaintiffs, where Mrs. Bindley and her two little children were at the time; that it attacked the* two children successively, choking one of them severely; that the mother successfully, though with…