Donchin v. Guerrero

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• applying similar standard of care to landlord, where third party was injured off the rental 1977
• “a landlord who does not have actual knowledge of a tenant’s dog’s vicious nature cannot be held liable when the dog attacks a third person”
• “‘actual knowledge can be inferred from the circumstances only if, in light of the evidence, such inference is not based on speculation or conjecture’”
• “‘actual knowledge can be inferred from the circumstances only if, in light of the evidence, such inference is not based on speculation or conjecture’”
• “a landlord who does not have actual knowledge of a tenant’s dog’s vicious nature cannot be held liable when the dog attacks a third person”
• landlord may be liable for off-site dog bites where dog's escape is due to a defect in the rental property

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).