Strouse v. Leipf
Supreme Court of Alabama
Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. This action was brought by the appellee, Elizabeth Leipf against the appellant Estra Strouse, a married woman, to recover damages for defendant’s negligently keeping a savage and ferocious dog, so that it escaped from the premises and inflicted the injuries complained of. The defendant pleaded a special plea in abatement, which is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
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Appeal from tbe Circuit Court of Mobile. Tried before the Hon. James T. Jones. This action was brought by the appellee, Elizabeth Leipf against the appellant Estra Strouse, a married woman, to recover damages for defendant’s negligently keeping a savage and ferocious dog, so that it escaped from the premises and inflicted the injuries complained of. The defendant pleaded a special plea in abatement, which is sufficiently stated in the opinion. The plaintiff demurred to this plea, on the ground that the fact that defendant’s husband “controlled the dog kept by defendant, and controlled the…
1Opinion of the Court
STONE, 0. J.
This suit was brought by appellee to recover damages for alleged injuries suffered from the bite of a dog. The suit is against Estra Strouse, and the complaint charges that “the defendant kept, and for a long time prior thereto had kept, a dog of savage and ferocious nature, and on, to-wit,the 21st day of February 1891, the defendant so negligently kept said dog that it escaped from the premises and attacked the plaintiff, and bit and tore and lacerated her, to her damage in the sum of * * plaintiff avers that the defendant had notice of the savage and ferocious nature of said…
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