Young v. Wyman

New York Court of Appeals · Decided 1990-12-27

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Kaye, J. (dissenting). In this case, a car braked to avoid hitting a dog that had run into the street, and the car hit a child on a bicycle, injuring the child. The issue is whether the *1011 dog’s presence in the street gave rise to a presumption of negligence on the part of the dog’s owner. To put the question even more precisely, does the presumption of negligence that…

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