Bischoff v. Cheney
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for personal injuries caused by the bite of a cat while trespassing upon the plaintiff’s premises, whither the animal was permitted to go through the alleged carelessness and negligence of the defendants, brought to the Superior Court in New Haven County and tried to the jury before Williams, J.; verdict and judgment for the defendants, and appeal by the plaintiff.
1Opinion of the CourtWheelek, J.
The complaint alleges that the defendant Cheney owned a large Angora cat, which he placed in the care of the defendant Woodcock; that the cat was possessed of vicious propensities of which the defendants had knowledge; and that the defendant Woodcock failed to properly confine the cat and negligently permitted it to go at large and onto the plaintiff’s premises, where it bit her.
The plaintiff construes the complaint as stating two causes of action: one, that the defendants, with knowledge of its vicious propensities, kept the cat, and that it came upon the plaintiff’s premises and there bit…
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