Dickerman v. Consolidated Railway Co.
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for negligently killing the plaintiff’s dog, brought to the City Court of New Haven and tried to the jury, after a demurrer to the complaint had been overruled (Mathewson, J.~); verdict and judgment for the plaintiff for $50, and appeal by the defendant.
1Opinion of the CourtHall, J.
The complaint alleges that on the 14th of February, 1906, the plaintiff was the owner of a dog of the value of $100, and that while said dog was lawfully on Alden Avenue, in the city of New Haven, and on the tracks of the defendant’s street railway, and in the care of the plaintiff’s servant, the defendant negligently ran its car upon said dog and killed it.
To this complaint the defendant demurred, upon the grounds, among others, that under the law of this State no action lies for the negligent killing of a dog, and that it did not appear that the dog had been registered and had upon its neck…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Sentell v. New Orleans & Carrollton R. Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1897
- Woolf v. ChalkerSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1862
- Jemison v. Southwestern RailroadSupreme Court of Georgia · 1885
- Moore v. Electric Co.Supreme Court of North Carolina · 1904
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- Lacker v. StraussMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1917
- Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. WedgworthSupreme Court of Alabama · 1922
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