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  • Conn. court: Horse owners must prevent injuries (claims horses “naturally vicious”)

    03/29/2014 9:57:50 AM PDT · by Olog-hai · 68 replies
    Associated Press ^ | Mar. 26, 2014 4:17 PM EDT | Stephen Singer
    Owners of horses and other domestic animals must try to prevent their animals from causing foreseeable injuries, the state’s highest court ruled Wednesday in a decision that avoided the larger issue of whether horses are inherently vicious while siding with a family whose child was bitten by one. The Connecticut Supreme Court ruled 6-0 to uphold an Appellate Court decision that said a horse belongs to “a species naturally inclined to do mischief or be vicious.” But four of the justices said that the question of whether an animal is naturally dangerous must be considered individually by lower courts. […]...