Halm v. Madison

Citations

• 65 Wash. 588
• 118 P. 755
• 1911 Wash. LEXIS 978

Syllabus

<p>Animals — Dogs—Viciousness — Evidence — Sufficiency — Joint Ownership — Knowledge — Husband and Wife — Notice to Wife. There is sufficient evidence of the vicious propensities of a dog and notice thereof to sustain a verdict against a husband and wife, as a community, for personal injuries inflicted upon a child, where it appears that it bit the child, that it had previously bitten two other children, and was cross when teased, and the wife had been warned as to its vicious propensities and told of its biting another child; notice to one joint owner being notice to all the owners (Gose, J., dissenting in part).</p>