Court Opinion

ID: 9808067
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 20:26:52.103469+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:08:48.670922
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Stacy, C. J.,
concurring in result: The jury has found upon competent evidence and under a charge free from reversible error, notwithstanding some inexactness, that the plaintiff was injured by the negligence of the defendants as alleged in the complaint and that he himself was not contributorily negligent. This is as far as we are required to go in upholding the judgment on the present record, and in my opinion, it is as far as we ought to go. Such was the theory of the trial, and it accords with our previous decisions on the subject. Banks v. Maxwell, 205 N. C., 233, 171 S. E., 70; Rector v. Coal Co., 192 N. C., 804, 136 S. E., 113; Hallyburton v. Fair Assn., 119 N. C., 526, 26 S. E., 114. There is a difference between keeping domestic animals and wild beasts, or beasts which are naturally vicious. S. v. Smith, 156 N. C., 628, 72 S. E., 321; Buckle v. Holmes, 2 K. B., 125, 54 A. L. R., 89; 2 Am. Jur., 724, et seq.
WiNBORNE, J., joins in this opinion.