 ... keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge that it is so accustomed, is prima facie liable in an action on the case at the suit of any person attacked and injured by the animal, without any averment of negligence or default...  Wisconsin Reports: Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of Wisconsin - Page 310by Wisconsin. Supreme Court, Abram Daniel Smith, Philip Loring Spooner, Obadiah Milton Conover, Frederic King Conover, Frederick William Arthur, Frderick C. Seibold - 1876Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Owen - 1846 - 494 pages
...might have been entirely occasioned by the carelessness and want of caution of the plaintiff herself. A great many cases and precedents, were cited upon...with knowledge that it is so accustomed, is prima Jane liable in an action on the case, at the suit of any person attacked and injured by the animal,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Supreme Judicial Court - 1866 - 1338 pages
...negligence or default in the defendant in not properly keeping or securing the animal. Lord Denman said : "A great many cases and precedents were cited...to be drawn from them appears to us to be, that the Popplewell v. Pierce. declaration is good upon the face of it, and that whoever keeps an animal accustomed... | |
 | 1892 - 554 pages
...not or omission ou the part of the person injured." In Partlow v. Ha99erty, 35 Ind. 178, it was held that " whoever keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge of its dangerous propensities, is prima facie liable to an action for damages at the suit of any person... | |
 | Herbert Broom - 1874 - 880 pages
...and known by the owner to be so, and one which is ferce natures.1 "Whosoever," says Lord Denman, CJ,2 "keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge that it so accustomed, is'primd facie liable in an action on the case at the suit of any person attacked and... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - 1875 - 808 pages
...might have been entirely occasioned by the carelessness and want of caution of the plaintiff herself. A great many cases and precedents were cited upon...that whoever keeps an animal accustomed to attack and hite mankind, with knowledge that it is so accustomed, is prima facie liable in an action on the case... | |
 | Melville Madison Bigelow - 1875 - 830 pages
...(9 QB 101. Queen's Bench, England, Trinity Term, 1846.) Keeping Ferocious Animal*. — A person who keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge that it is so accustomed, is /irimafucic liable in an action on the case at the suit of any person attacked and injured by such... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - 1879 - 856 pages
...overruled the motion in arrest, and decided that whoever keeps an animal accustomed to attack and injure mankind, with knowledge that it is so accustomed,...facie liable in an action on the case at the suit of the person attacked and in-, jured, without any averment of negligence or default in securing or taking... | |
 | Charles Patrick Daly - 1879 - 648 pages
...averment. The conclusion, Lord Denman said, to be arrived at from a consideration of the cases was, that whoever keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge that he is so accustomed, is prima facie liable on an action in the case at the suit of any person attacked... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Herbert Francis Manisty, Charles Francis Cagney - 1884 - 1078 pages
...known by the owner to be so, and one which is ferce natural (e). " Whoever," says Lord Denman, CJ (/) " keeps an animal accustomed to attack and bite mankind, with knowledge that it is so accustomed, is jirim<i facie liable in an action on the case at the suit of any person attacked and injured by the... | |
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