Best In Show maintains a business of pet grooming at 968 E. ninth St. in Lockport, in keeping with the brand new Will County lawsuit.
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LOCKPORT, IL — A girl whose Pomeranian canine named Brandon died on Oct. 15, 2021, has retained a Joliet regulation agency to file a civil lawsuit towards the Best In Show Dog & Cat Grooming on East ninth Street, accusing the Lockport business of negligence in her canine’s dying.
The lawsuit was filed at Will County’s Courthouse on behalf of Brandon’s proprietor, Brendalisse Figueroa, by Joliet legal professional Luke Antonsen of Hamilton & Antonsen on Executive Drive.
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The Lockport business has not filed its response to the lawsuit but. On Monday, Patch additionally left a voicemail searching for remark for this story with the Lockport pet grooming business.
According to the plaintiff, whereas Brandon was on the business, Best In Show “allowed and or permitted the canine grooming methods and gear of the aforesaid premises for use in an unsafe and harmful situation in that the plaintiff’s canine Brandon was strangled to dying, though the defendant knew or ought to have recognized that the methods and gear used would and will trigger deaths to pets lawfully being handled and current …”
The lawsuit additionally accuses Best In Show of failing to keep up enough supervision of the canine grooming methods and gear used. As a results of Brandon’s dying by strangulation, Figueroa has suffered nice ache and psychological anguish, her lawsuit mentioned.
The lawsuit additionally named Lori Robinson in rely 2 of the criticism, noting that she was and remains to be the proprietor of Best in Show.
The lawsuit notes that Figueroa was current at Robinson’s business when Brandon was being handled, and that Robinson had agreed to supply pet grooming.
The lawsuit seeks a financial judgment in extra of $50,000 from Robinson, in addition to Best In Show.
