Massachusetts: Landlords may be liable if tenant’s pit bull attacks

Court: Landlords may be liable if tenant’s pit bull attacks

By Kyle Cheney/Statehouse News Service
Daily News Tribune
Posted Oct 20, 2009 @ 02:07 AM

WALTHAM — The state’s second-highest court ruled Monday that a landlord may be held accountable if a tenant’s pit bull goes on the attack, specifically singling out the breed as one known to have a propensity for aggression.

[...]“While the defendants may not be held strictly liable by virtue of Tiny’s breed, knowledge of that breed and its propensities may properly be a factor to be considered in determining whether the defendants were negligent under common-law principles,” said the appeals court opinion, written by Justice Gary Katzmann.[...]

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