CONCORD, N.H. — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit blaming a New Hampshire man for a motorcycle crash involving his son’s dog.
Lisa Lorrain, a Maine resident, was seriously hurt in 2009 when she tried to avoid hitting the dog and crashed into a telephone poll in Wakefield. She sued John Branscombe of Nottingham, whose adult son owned the dog, arguing that he could be considered the dog’s “keeper” under the law because he let his son bring the dog to work at a business he owned in Rochester.
A U.S. District Court judge rejected that argument Monday and said even if Branscombe was the dog’s keeper, the state’s “dog bite” law doesn’t apply because the dog wasn’t being vicious or mischievous in running into the road.
Why does everything have to be someone else’s fault?
Three letter word….. SUE!
I guess she was trying to sue the person with the deepest pockets. She should’ve sued the dog but she wouldn’t have gotten peanuts as damages…..just kibble.
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I’m confused. Was the dog at-large? If so I thought owners are typically held responsible for damages caused by a dog at-large.
Thats what i thought. leash law ?
people should be held responsibly for there animals wherever they are at
POLE. Telephone POLE. Doesn’t anyone know basic English any more?