Perlin v. Chappell

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an owner of domestic animals has “the duty to exercise ordinary care in the use and maintenance of his own property to prevent injury to others” (quoting Rice v. Turner, 191 Va. 601, 605 (1950))
• bull escaped fenced-in area of a slaughterhouse and stockyard, and injured a worker in a nearby shipyard
• bull escaped fenced-in area of a slaughterhouse and stockyard, and injured a worker in a nearby shipyard
• defendant owed a duty to the plaintiff, a stranger, when defendant allowed a cow to escape his premises on the basis that the common law \imposes upon every person the duty to exercise ordinary care in the use and maintenance of his own property to prevent injury to others\
• same, quoting Rice, 191 Va. at 605

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).