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REYNOLDS v. LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON

739 A.2d 413 (1999)

325 N.J. Super. 298

Glen Curt REYNOLDS and Dionna M. Reynolds, Plaintiffs-Respondents, and Guard Dogs Unlimited, Inc., Plaintiff, v. LANCASTER COUNTY PRISON, Defendant-Appellant, and Ken Geib, Defendant. Martin Abbott, Plaintiff-Respondent/ Cross-Appellant, v. Guard Dogs Unlimited, Inc. and Lancaster County Prison, Defendants-Appellants/ Cross-Respondents, and Glen Reynolds, Vincent A. Guarini, Alan J. Himmelsbach And Kenneth L. Geib, Defendants.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided October 27, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Kretzer, Jersey City, for defendant-appellant (Lamb, Hartung, Kretzer, Reinman & DePascale, attorneys; Mr. Kretzer, on the brief).

John R. Knodel, Edison, for defendant-appellant/cross-respondent Guard Dogs Unlimited, Inc. (Methfessel & Werbel, attorneys; Mr. Knodel, on the brief).

Mitchell B. Seidman, Roseland, for plaintiff-respondent/cross-appellant Martin Abbott (Ravin, Sarasohn, Cook, Baumgarten, Fisch & Rosen, attorneys; Mr. Seidman, of counsel and on the brief; Christine Fader, on the brief).

David A. Mazie, Livingston, for plaintiffs-respondents Glen Curt Reynolds and Dionna Reynolds (Nagel, Rice & Dreifuss, attorneys; Mr. Mazie, of counsel and on the brief; Randee M. Matloff, on the brief).

Before Judges PETRELLA, BRAITHWAITE and COBURN.

The opinion of the court was delivered by COBURN, J.A.D.

The primary defendant in these consolidated dog-bite cases is Lancaster County Prison ("LCP"), a Pennsylvania public entity. During the fourteen months it owned Diesel, a 134-pound Rottweiler trained as an attack dog for prisoner control, the dog bit prison guards on five separate occasions. Despite Diesel's demonstrated propensity for unprovoked attacks on humans,...

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