O'Steen v. Kemmerer

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• finding landowner not liable where an employee's monkey escaped from property and attacked plaintiff off the premises
• absent some special interest or relationship between the landowner and an animal kept on the premises by an occupant, the landowner will not be liable for injuries that the animal causes away from the property
• in which the court refused to extend Christie to a situation in which the plaintiff was injured on her own property by wild animals kept on the landowner’s adjacent property by his employee, absent any interest in or use of the animals by the landowner

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