VASQUES BY AND THR'H ROCHA v. LOPEZ

No. 85-1968.

509 So.2d 1241 (1987)

Jacqueline VASQUES, a Minor, By and through Her Natural Parents and Next Friend Emelia ROCHA, and Emelia Rocha, Individually, Appellants, v. Marcelino LOPEZ, Appellee.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

Rehearing Denied August 3, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip M. Burlington of Edna L. Caruso, P.A. and Law Office of Jose Rodriguez, West Palm Beach, for appellants.

Jane Kreusler-Walsh and Larry Klein of Klein & Beranek, P.A., and Cunningham & Cunningham, West Palm Beach, for appellee.


STONE, Judge.

The plaintiff child was attacked by a pit bulldog while being cared for in a residence occupied by the Trevino family, owners of the dog. The defendant Lopez owned the premises.

The Trevino family, whose daughter was married to the landlord's son, had occupied the premises for seven years under an oral week-to-week tenancy at will. They had owned the dog for two years. Throughout that period the Trevinos had posted and prominently displayed six...

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