Case Name: E. E. Drew v. Edward J. Gross
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1925
Citations: 3 Ohio Law Abs. 279
Docket Number: No. 18518
Parties: E. E. Drew v. Edward J. Gross.
Judges: Marshall, C. J., Matthias, Day, Robinson and Kinkade, JJ., concur.
Reporter: The Ohio Law Abstract
Volume: 3
Pages: 279–279

Head Matter:
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.

Opinion:
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.