Monday, July 12, 2004
Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt dismisses dog-bite case
A Brooklyn woman was barking up the wrong tree when she tried to sue her landlord after her roommate's pit bull took a chunk out of her leg, a judge has ruled. Janine Gordon had sued her landlord, Vera Realty, arguing the company should have warned her that her roomie's dog, Tar, had "vicious propensities" because the pit bull had previously attacked somebody else in one of its buildings. But in a decision published Saturday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt noted that Gordon knew more about the dog's behavior than the landlord, because her roommate, Grace Roselli, had told her about the cranky canine before they moved in together in 1996. Gordon and Tar got along well at first, the ruling says, and Gordon even "cared for Tar when Roselli was on vacation, at times letting the dog sleep with her." I guess the saying is correct, "let sleeping dogs lie", or the people watching them will lie.
A Brooklyn woman was barking up the wrong tree when she tried to sue her landlord after her roommate's pit bull took a chunk out of her leg, a judge has ruled. Janine Gordon had sued her landlord, Vera Realty, arguing the company should have warned her that her roomie's dog, Tar, had "vicious propensities" because the pit bull had previously attacked somebody else in one of its buildings. But in a decision published Saturday, Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice David I. Schmidt noted that Gordon knew more about the dog's behavior than the landlord, because her roommate, Grace Roselli, had told her about the cranky canine before they moved in together in 1996. Gordon and Tar got along well at first, the ruling says, and Gordon even "cared for Tar when Roselli was on vacation, at times letting the dog sleep with her." I guess the saying is correct, "let sleeping dogs lie", or the people watching them will lie.
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