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· 4/21/1998

Frost v. Robave, Inc.

Citations

  • 694 N.E.2d 581
  • 296 Ill. App. 3d 528
  • 230 Ill. Dec. 612

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that the statute does not provide three separate categories of liability, namely, care, custody, and knowing permission; instead, they are examples of keeper or harborer or “at the least, usually would be encompassed within the term ‘keeping’ or ‘harboring’ ”
  • the Animal Control Act “applies to legal owners as well as anyone who keeps or harbors a dog”
  • the Animal Control Act \applies to legal owners as well as anyone who keeps or harbors a dog.\
  • Illinois courts have consistently held that a person’s status as keeper is dependent upon control over the animal at the time of the injury
  • a keeper is one who “had control over the animal at the time of the injury or immediately prior to the injury” and a harborer is one who provided food and shelter on a semi-permanent nature

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Judges: Rakowski

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