ILLINOIS -- A Cicero woman is suing her neighbors after their American Bulldog bit her right arm while she was standing in her front yard last August.
Angelia Hernandez filed a lawsuit in the Cook County Circuit Court against Julia Monarrez and Dominga Nava, listed as owners of the American Bulldog that Hernandez alleges bit her.
According to the lawsuit, at about 7 p.m. on Aug. 5, 2011, Hernandez was in her front yard on the 5300 block of West 30th Street in Cicero when the dog attacked her without provocation, biting her right arm.
According to the lawsuit, Monarrez and Nava failed to control or restrain the dog and failed to warn Hernandez of the dog’s presence, among other allegations.
Monarrez and Nava “should have known the American Bulldog’s propensity or potential to cause injury,” the lawsuit says.
The lawsuit cites a state law that says dog owners are liable for damages for injuries caused by their animal to a person “peaceably conducting him/herself in any place that he/she may lawfully be.”
Chicago-based attorney Edward J. Vrdolyak of the law firm representing Hernandez could not immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.
Monarrez and Nava both could not be immediately reached for comment Wednesday night.
(Chicago Tribune - August 22, 2012)
