Compare: The Lord Derby, 17 Fed. 265; Melsheimer v. Sullivan, 1 Col. App. 22; Woodbridge v. Marks, 17 App. Div. 139; Lloyd v. Bowen, 170 N. C. 216; Hayes v. Smith, 62 Ohio St. 161; Fallon v. O’Brien, 12 R. I. 518.
See also Vredenberg v. Behan, 33 La. Ann. 627 (bear teased by third person broke loose and injured plaintiff); Kinmouth v. McDougall, 19 N. Y. Supp. 771 (ram teased by children injured plaintiff).
See Bevan, The Responsibility at Common Law for the Keeping of Animals, 22 Harvard Law Rev. 465.
[272]. Compare Merritt v. Matchett, 135 Mo. App. 176.
[273]. Hadwell v. Righton, [1907] 2 K. B. 345; Higgins v. Searle, 25 Times L. R. 301; Klenberg v. Russell, 125 Ind. 531; Dix v. Somerset Coal Co., 217 Mass. 146; Shipley v. Colclough, 81 Mich. 624; Smith v. Donahue, 49 N. J. Law, 548; Meegan v. McKay, 1 Okl. 59 Accord. But see Barnes v. Chapin, 4 All. 444.
[274]. Jewett v. Gage, 55 Me. 538 (hog) Accord.
Compare Coulter, J., in Goodman v. Gay, 15 Pa. St. 188, 193, 194; Corcoran v. Kelly, 61 Misc. 323.
A fortiori if one turns loose a vicious animal: McGuire v. Ringrose, 41 La. Ann. 1029.
Injuries by animals running at large contrary to statute, see: Williams v. Brennan, 213 Mass. 28; Low v. Barnes, 30 Okl. 15; Palmer v. Saccocia, 33 R. I. 476.
[275]. In the argument for defendant the declaration is set out as follows:—