Fekete v. City of East St. Louis

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• holding that it is not reasonably foreseeable that a dog indeed will escape its confinement
• concluding that there is not “a high degree of foreseeability that leasing property to the owners of vicious dogs will result in injury to third parties”
• holding that it would be unreasonable to impose a duty on landlords to regulate the tenants’ animals where the owners clearly are in the best position to do so
• “The undisputed facts are that [the landowner] was neither the owner nor the keeper of his tenants’ dog. Thus, as a matter of law, he had no duty to confine or restrain the dog.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).