Baldwin v. Thompson

This is an action for negligence. The complaint alleges that the defendant knowingly kept a ferocious dog and failed to take proper precautions for his custody and that by reason thereof plaintiff was injured.

The defendant left his automobile containing a basket of plums in the driveway of one David Blair’s premises at East Worcester, Otsego county. In his automobile he left also his bulldog. He was a watch dog. Susan Blair, a child eight years of age, invited the plaintiff, a child of ten years, to play with her. While playing at Blair’s place the children went to the automobile and jumped…