Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — Dogs Must Not Harbor Malice. [ARTICLE]

Dogs Must Not Harbor Malice.

This part of a decision given by the lowa supreme court in the case of Van Bergen vs. Eulberg, 82 N. W. Rep., 453, relates to the right of Mr. Van Bergen’s dog to remember past wrongs: “A dog has no right to brood over its wrongs and remember in malice. That the injured girl threw sticks and stones at the dog several months before she was bitten furnished it no excuse. The only defense available to the dog's master is the doing of an unlawful act, at the time of the attack, by the person injured.”