Seim Ex Rel. Seim v. Garavalia

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the legislature intended to provide absolute strict liability
• finding that the defense of comparative fault did not apply to actions brought pursuant to the Minnesota dog-bite statute,5 which allowed a plaintiff to recover for injuries caused by a dog that acted “without provocation”
• describing criminal statute as one that could frame duty-of-care in negligence action
• “[S]tatutes forming the basis of a negligence per se action are often penal and do not expressly provide for a civil action.”
• “[N]egligence per se is not liability per se.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).