Jacksonville dog bite answers: Who Is Liable: Owners and Keepers
The informative website doglaw.hugpug.com has the following helpful information-
Usually, a dog’s owner is legally responsible for damage or injury the dog causes. But someone else may also be liable, if any of the following is true:
Someone besides the owner was taking care of and had control over the dog.
The dog’s owner is less than 18 years old.
The owner’s landlord knew the dog was dangerous but didn’t do anything about it.
The dog was on someone else’s property, and that person was negligent in not removing the dog.
Under the common law (discussed above), someone who harbors or keeps a dog is just as liable as the legal owner of a dog if the dog causes injury. Many state dog-bite laws also make the “owner or keeper” of a dog liable for damage or injury the dog causes.
Keepers and Harborers
A “keeper” is someone with care, custody, and control of a dog.46 A Minnesota court put it this way:
Harboring or keeping a dog means something more than a meal of mercy to a stray dog or the casual presence of a dog on someone’s premises. Harboring means to afford lodging, to shelter or to give refuge to a dog. Keeping a dog … implies more than the mere harboring of the dog for a limited purpose or time. One becomes the keeper of a dog only when he either with or without the owner’s permission undertakes to manage, control or care for it as dog owners in general are accustomed to do.47 If or a loved one has been the victim of a Jacksonville dog bite and you need answers call the Law Office of Henry Gare at (904) 387-6101 seven days a week.
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