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Statutes > Rhode-island > Title-4 > Chapter-4-13 > 4-13-16SECTION 4-13-16
§ 4-13-16 Action for damages to animals– Double damages on second recovery – Destruction of offending dog.– If any dog kills, wounds, worries, or assists in killing, wounding or worrying,any sheep, lamb, cattle, horse, hog, swine, fowl, or other domestic animalbelonging to or in the possession of any person, or assaults, bites, orotherwise injures any person while traveling the highway or out of theenclosure of the owner or keeper of that dog, the owner or keeper of the dogshall be liable to the person aggrieved, for all damage sustained, to berecovered in a civil action, with costs of suit. If afterwards any such damageis done by that dog, the owner or keeper of the dog shall pay to the partyaggrieved double the damage, to be recovered in the manner set forth and anorder shall be made by the court before whom that second recovery is made, forkilling the dog. The order shall be executed by the officer charged with theexecution of the order, and it shall not be necessary, in order to sustain thisaction, to prove that the owner or keeper of the dog knew that the dog wasaccustomed to causing this damage.
