Court Opinion

ID: 9524690
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 02:55:54.055213+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:11:34.249928
License: Public Domain

JUSTICE WHITE, dissenting: I would hold that the city of Rolling Meadows ordinance forbids keeping within the city as an “animal normally wild,” and that Yondi, a monkey, is such an animal. Keeping Yondi within the city is therefore a violation of the ordinance. The majority states that the record “shows that Yondi is a highly sociable animal,” but Yondi is still a monkey, and in the words of the ordinance, “It is no defense to a violation of this section that the owner *** has attempted to domesticate such animal.” I would affirm the judgment of the trial court.