Case ID: ohio-law-abs_3/html/0279-20.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "ALLEN, J.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

No. 433
    No. 18518
    E. E. Drew v. Edward J. Gross.
    Error to the Court of Appeals, Seneca ,County.
    622. HORSES—Liability of owner.of for negligence in turning into defectively 'fenced field, from which strayed, into highway and collided with auto; question for jury.
   ALLEN, J.

1. The owner of a domestic animal is responsible for negligence in its keeping.whereby damage is occasioned.

2. It is a question of fact for the jury whether an owner of horses who turns them loose unattended into a field adjacent to a much-travelled highway in the night time, the fence of which field is in such defective condition that the horses may easily stray out onto the highway, could have anticipated that one of the horses would stray out onto the highway and collide with an automobile thereon.

Judgment reversed and cause remanded. .

Marshall, C. J., Matthias, Day, Robinson and Kinkade, JJ., concur.