City of Dayton v. Patrick

Citations

• 2018 Ohio 196
• 104 N.E.3d 164

Syllabus

Defendant-appellant, following a bench trial, was convicted of a violation of Dayton Revised Code General Ordinance 91.50(A)(5), a strict liability offense, as a result of her dog's attack upon a neighbor's cat. Defendant-appellant, despite her absence when the attack occurred with the dog being supervised by her teenage son, engaged in voluntary conduct by her ownership of the dog. The city, accordingly, established that Defendant-appellant suffered or permitted the dog's attack. The trial court, additionally, did not err by rejecting Defendant-appellant's trespass defense. Judgment affirmed.