SELLERS v. MORRIS

No. 534.

64 S.E.2d 662 (1951)

233 N.C. 560

SELLERS v. MORRIS et al.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

May 2, 1951.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Helms & Mulliss and James B. McMillan, Charlotte, for defendants-appellants.

No counsel contra.


BARNHILL, Justice.

"If an ox gore a man or a woman, that they die: then the ox shall be surely stoned * * * but the owner of the ox shall be quit. But if the ox were wont to push with his horn in time past, and it hath been testified to his owner, and he hath not kept him in, but that he hath killed a man or a woman * * * his owner also shall be put to death." Exodus 21: 28, 29.

The philosophy of liability of an owner for damages inflicted by a domestic animal...

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