In re Lorde
| Decision Date | 01 February 1906 |
| Parties | In re LORDE. |
| Court | U.S. District Court — Eastern District of New York |
Krakower & Peters, for bankrupt.
William W. Butcher, for judgment creditor.
The bankrupt, L., had control of an apartment house. A tenant therein kept a dog. It bit a boy. L. was informed thereof. Thereafter the dog bit another boy. L. was sued for the injury. The complaint stated Negligence, vol. 1, p. 972.
In the present case the bankrupt did now own, nor had he any control of, the dog. He did have power to insist that the owners charged with its custody and control should remove the dog from the premises. He could also report the event to the public authorities. His failure to do so may be deemed negligent, but it did not place him in the position of a person who was himself maintaining a nuisance. The person in general control of an apartment house may not enter, save for purposes consistent with the lessee's tenancy, the rooms let to another, and if the tenant persists in keeping a vicious dog, the keeping is not that of the landlord, although he may be liable for negligence in not taking steps to have the tenant's nuisance abated. But a cause of action against the landlord is not for maintaining a nuisance, but for negligence in not taking some steps to abate the same. He acquiesced in the harboring by another.
The judgment is dischargeable in bankruptcy, and the proceedings for the arrest of the bankrupt should be stayed.
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