Summary White's lawsuit said her neighbors were negligent and that she suffered from mental anguish.
HOUSTON (Reuters) - The owner of three pit bulls and a pit-bull mix is seeking up to $1 million in damages after her dogs entered the Houston-area property of her neighbor and fatally attacked her neighbor s 10-year-old beagle.
Emerald White said she was trying to retrieve her four dogs from her neighbor s yard when the beagle attacked her, causing her dogs to attack, the lawsuit said.
The beagle s owners, the Baker family, said the pit bulls broke into their yard and started the incident that left their beagle, Bailey, dead a few minutes after the attack ended in the Houston suburb of Texas City.
White s attorney, Paul LaValle, told local broadcaster KHOU-TV: "I’m getting the hate mail and the death threats. They have a very good PR campaign working for the family that owned the beagle."
White s lawsuit said her neighbors were negligent and that she suffered from mental anguish, disfigurement, pain, loss of earnings and a fear of future disease because of the beagle attack.
The Baker family told KHOU-TV it had no plans to sue White because it would not bring their dead pet back.
"Bailey ... laid up next to the house and died," Steve Baker told the broadcaster.
