AMBERWOOD ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, INC. v. MATTHEWS

No. 649 Sept. Term, 1996.

694 A.2d 131 (1997)

115 Md. App. 510

AMBERWOOD ASSOCIATES LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, INC., et al. v. Shanita L. MATTHEWS, Individually, etc.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

May 28, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

E. Dale Adkins, III (Gregory L. VanGeison and Anderson, Coe & King, L.L.P., on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellants.

Andrew D. Freeman (C. Christopher Brown, Lauren E. Willis and Brown, Goldstein & Levy, L.L.P., on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellees.

Argued before HARRELL and SONNER, JJ., and PAUL E. ALPERT, J. (Retired, Specially Assigned).


SONNER, Judge.

Shanita Matthews1, appellee, while visiting her friend, Shelly Morton, in an apartment complex, witnessed her sixteen-month-old son, Tevin Williams, being killed by a vicious pitbull named Rampage. Rampage was known by Ms. Morton, the dog's custodian, for being vicious, but Ms. Matthews did not sue Ms. Morton, nor the owner of Rampage, who was away in jail. Instead, she sued appellants, the landlord of the apartment complex...

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