Rollins v. Hedin

Defendants, husband and wife, appeal from a judgment rendered by the court in a trial without a jury for personal injuries incurred by plaintiff in an encounter with a dog owned by defendants. The complaint charged that the dog was “of a ferocious, vicious and mischievous disposition and accustomed to attack persons and possessed of traits making said dog dangerous to persons, all of which was known to said defendants.” The plaintiff’s proof showed that while he was walking along the sidewalk in front of defendants’ residence in the city of San Bruno the dog approached him from behind, seized…