Tracey v. Solesky

DALE R. CATHELL, (Retired, Specially Assigned), J.

In Maryland the vicious mauling of young children by pit bulls occurred as early as 1916.1 Bachman v. Clark, 128 Md. 245, 97 A. 440 (1916). In that case, a ten-year-old boy, John L. Clark, was playing on the north side of a street when a pit *630bull (“bull terrier”) came across the street from its owner’s property and attacked him, inflicting serious injuries. The pit bull refused to release the boy until a witness picked up a “scantling”2 and struck the dog, killing it. Similar to the testimony in the present case by the boy’s mother, in that…