68 Cal. App. 4th 173 - Johnson v. McMahan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Phillips v. San Luis Obispo County Department of Animal Regulation · 112 Cal. App. 50 - Hensley v. McBride · 65 Cal. App. 2d 111 - Goldberg v. Rabuchin · Ellsworth v. Elite Dry Cleaners, Dyers & Laundry, Inc. · 51 Cal. App. 2d 415 - Menches v. Inglewood Humane Society
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“bit off) does not require a puncture or tearing away. We turn to a particularly reliable source: an authoritative dictionary. In Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1993) page 222, we find the term defined at length. The first meaning is "to seize with the teeth so that they enter, grip, or wound.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“if the dog's jaws clamped upon a portion of plaintiff's trousers so that a part of plaintiff's leg was between the jaws, albeit separated from tooth by cloth, a bite occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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