Florida Statutes

Fla. Stat. § 767.05 (2025)

Owner’s liability for damages by dog to dairy cattle.

✓ 2025 Florida Statutes — current through the 2025 Regular Session

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section FL-LEGleg.state.fl.us JustiaFla. Statutes CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

767.05 Owner’s liability for damages by dog to dairy cattle.—An owner or keeper of any dog that kills, wounds, or harasses any dairy cattle shall be jointly and severally liable to the owner of such dairy cattle for all damages done by such dog; and it is not necessary to prove notice to or knowledge by any such owner or keeper of such dog that the dog was mischievous or disposed to kill or worry any dairy cattle.

History.—s. 2, ch. 79-315; s. 482, ch. 81-259.

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1984–1995 · leading case: Belcher Yacht, Inc. v. Stickney, 450 So. 2d 1111 (Fla. 1984).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

Belcher Yacht, Inc. v. Stickney, 450 So. 2d 1111 (Fla. 1984). · cites it 2× “[2] Compare with section 767.05, Florida Statutes (1979), which specifically refers to "an owner or keeper of any dog.”

Huie v. Wipperfurth, 632 So. 2d 1109 (Fla. 5th DCA 1994). · cites it 2× “Compare with section 767.05, Florida Statutes (1979), which specifically refers to "an owner or keeper of any dog .”

Wipperfurth v. Huie, 654 So. 2d 116 (Fla. 1995). “04, "the owners of any dog," with the wording of section 767.05, "an owner or keeper of any dog.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.