Hagen v. Texaco Refining & Marketing, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• noting that section 351.28 “implicitly requires a causal connection between the animal’s actions and the damages sought by the plaintiff”
• noting statutes imposing liability on animal owners for damages “done by” the animal “implicitly require[ ] a causal connection between the animal’s actions and the damages sought by the plaintiff”
• stating court seeks a reasonable construction of a statute that will “avoid absurd results”
• stating court seeks a reasonable construction of a statute that will \avoid absurd results\
• applying case law interpretation of same language used in other, unrelated statutes
• applying case law interpretation of same language used in other, unrelated statutes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).