CHAPTER XXXVIII.

 

OF INJURIES FROM DOGS.

 

§1488. If any dog shall injure or destroy any sheep or cattle, goats, hogs, fowls, or other property, belonging to any person other than the owner of such dog, the owner shall be liable in damages to the person injured, for the value of the property so injured or destroyed; and it shall be the duty of the owner to confine or destroy such dog, and if he neglect or refuse to do so, he shall in the event of any further damage being done to the person, or property of any person, by such dog, in addition to pay­ing the person injured for such damage, pay the costs of the trial, together with a fine of ten dollars, or in default of the payment of such fine, be imprisoned at hard labor for the term of thirty days, and it shall be lawful for any other person to destroy said dog.

 

 

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