Zarek v. Fredericks

GOODRICH, Circuit Judge.

The defendant appeals from a judgment against him in the District Court rendered in favor of the minor plaintiff, Vincent Zarek, and a second judgment in favor of the minor’s mother. The basis of each recovery is the damage claimed to the respective interests of each plaintiff when Vincent was bitten by a dog owned and kept by the defendant at his summer resort hotel in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, where the mother and son were vacation guests. There is no dispute concerning the defendant’s ownership and possession of the dog, nor the fact that the dog bit the minor…