Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — COURT GIVES BEAR RIGHTS [ARTICLE]

COURT GIVES BEAR RIGHTS

New York Appellate Bench Hold* Captive Animal May Claw at Will. New York.—A captive park bear has the right to claw any one who comes within its range, under a ruling of the appellate division of the New York supreme court. The court denied Blanche Guzzl, thirteen years old, damages sought in a suit against the New York Zoological society, which controls the Bronx zoo. It held she tpok her chances in pursuing scrolling ball too dose to the bear’s cage and that the resultant clawing could not be held against the zoo management.