As reported by the Galveston City News, a Texas City, Texas, woman’s four pit bulls attacked and killed another family’s 10-year-old beagle in October. Although you would expect Steve Baker, the beagle’s owner, to be suing Emerald White, the pit bulls’ owner, she’s now suing Baker for $1 million in damages.
White claims that she was “seriously injured” after she was “unexpectedly and viciously attacked” when she entered Baker’s backyard to retrieve her dogs, who got into her neighbor's yard through a hole in the fence between the two properties.
Baker said he had been encouraged to sue White, but he declined; the police declared the dogs dangerous, which was all Baker says he wanted. The Texas City ordinance defines a dangerous dog as one that “makes an unprovoked attack on a person that causes bodily injury” or “commits unprovoked acts” in a place other than its enclosure. In this case, the dogs got out of their fenced yard and attacked the beagle.
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