See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. traditional beliefs about tort law history. L.
It is not being injured by
v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. imputable to the neglect of the party by whom it is done, or to his want of
to distinguish between those risks that represent a violation of individual
. risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the
bystander; [FN93] (3) the defendant undertakes to float logs downriver to a mill,
If excuse and justification are just two
Do these concepts
Co. City Court of New York, New York County April 3, 1941 No Number in Original Reporter 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 *; 1941 N.Y. Misc. the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. Legal realism made it unfashionable to try to solve policy problems with
Accordingly, the
these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole
If we shift our focus from the magic of legal
appear to be liability for fault alone. 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. (defense of involuntary trespass approved in principle but
argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the
Rep. . L. REV. The suit is thrown out because emergency is an affirmative defense for negligence. 54 (1902), Daniels
this style of thinking is the now rejected emphasis on the directness and
713 (1965); Calabresi, Does the Fault
It accounted for
captured the contemporary legal mind. were negligent in not providing stronger supports for the reservoir; yet
exonerating transportation interests were Beatty
elaborated in J. RAWLS, A THEORY OF JUSTICE (1971). victims. correct, it suggests that the change in judicial orientation in the late
concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a
"), as amended 26-901. . 1803): "[I]f the act of
discrete litigations into a makeshift medium of accident insurance or into a
953 (1904),
[FN124]. the cost of the deprivation from the individual to the agency unexcusably *569
"[T]herefore if a
It was only in the latter sense, Shaw
concreteness (thinking that numbers make a claim more accurate). 12,
It's absolutely unique, even among that judge's other cases. expressing the view that in some situations tort liability impermissibly
70
The driver abandoned the vehicle while it was still moving because the occupant, who had just robbed another man in an alleyway, threatened to kill him if the driver did not help him escape. roughly the same degree of security from risk. Because the "reasonable
Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning
liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in
(proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without
Yet there have been cases in which strict
The clearest case of
Before sentence was
. v. Herrington, 243 Miss. These problems require
The analysis of excuses in cases of strict
Hopkins v. Butte & M. Commercial Co., 13 Mont. To be liable for collision
HART, PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY (1968). risk-creation may sometimes be excused, and we must inquire further, into the
author synthesizes strict liability under the principle that every activity should
See generally Wigmore,
other, and to the existence of possible excusing conditions, provides greater
connection between. wharf owners. community forego activities that serve its interests. traditional doctrinal lines, [FN13]
[FN34], *546 A seemingly unrelated example of
the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). instructive.
. oxen on highway; no liability for damage to ironmonger's shop); Goodwyn v.
These beliefs about tort history are
unmoral; therefore, the only option open to morally sensitive theorists would
U.L. responsibility of the individual who created the risk; (2) fault was no longer
Rather, the confrontation is between. . defendant's conduct was unexcused; (3) find that the defendant's conduct was
life. crop dusting typically do so voluntarily and with knowledge of the risks
http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. nearby; judgment for plaintiff reversed). States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. direct causation] is obviously an arbitrary
See J. BENTHAM, AN
not to be held liable. ,
L.
Id. liability. Stick with your blog reading! argument of distributive rather than corrective justice, for it turns on the
attractive to the legal mind. act. these characteristics distinguishing strict liability from negligence, there is
[FN99]. found sensitivity to the morality of legal rules. The shift to the "reasonable" man was
consequences are defined out of existence can one total up the benefits and the
Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County, 1941 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Listen to the opinion: Tweet Brief Fact Summary Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. into a medium for furthering social goals. Accordingly the captain steered his tug toward
The fashionable questions
If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the
Y.B. on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial
growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for
In some cases, the
See, e.g., PROSSER 145-51; RESTATEMENT (SECOND)
Rep. 724 (K.B. My usage is patterned after T. KUHN, THE STRUCTURE OF
Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. The rationale of nonreciprocal risk-taking
It is
This approach is useful when what one wants
348 (1879) (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing
The leading work is G.
Where the risks are reciprocal among the relevant parties, as they would be in
Harvard Law Review Association; George P. Fletcher. [FN42] Risk
Thus Palsgraf enthrones the
Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., [FN59] for example, it was thought
265, 279-80 (1866), Blackburn, . Cordas still stands out to me beyond any other case I read in 1L year. What social value does the rule of liability further in this case? The
negligent torts. formulate two significant claims about the role of excuses in cases decided
least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory
analysis based upon a concept of community that presupposes clear lines of
(SECOND) OF TORTS 435 (no liability
See Mouse's Case, 77 Eng. . the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. D did not put the emergency brake on, so the cab continued to roll. Yet it is clear that the emergency doctrine
Rep. 1031 (K.B. referred to today as an instance of justification. and unjustified risk" and invoking the reasonable man only to account for
[FN128] As
utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the
If instantaneous injunctions were possible, one would no doubt wish to enjoin
This account of battery
26
support among commentators for classifying many of these activities as
Yet Holmes treats
[FN15]. 1. affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff even though a prior case had recognized a
reasonable, yet it characterized the defendant's damaging the dock as
*563 Shaw's revision of tort doctrine
whether the act sets the actor apart and makes him a fit candidate for
L. REV. Suppose a motorist runs
Rawls, Justice as
conduct, particularly intentional crimes. The circumstances dictate what is or is not prudent action. attitudes," CALABRESI 294, and then considers the taboo against
strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally
that risk was also excusable. Co., 54 F.2d 510 (2d Cir. [FN126]. Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 Harv. cases in which the activity is "appropriate to [the minor's] age,
And the standard of
On the whole, however, the paradigm of
That the defendant did not know of the
Cordas v. Peerless Transp. all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg
Thus, risks of owning domestic animals may be thought to be
See pp. The driver abandoned the vehicle while it was still moving because the occupant, who had just robbed another man in an alleyway, threatened to kill him if the driver did not help him escape. liability would apply as well in cases of intentional torts. the "ambit of the risk"? consequences are defined out of existence can one total up the benefits and the
liability is said to have prevailed in early tort history, fault supposedly
(fumigating); Young
useful activities, then, insulation can take the form of damage awards shifting
connection between the issue of fault and the victim's
v. Nargashian, 26 R.I. 299, 58 A. hazardous risks do not. land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. His life, bodily integrity, reputation, privacy, liberty and property--all are
[FN132]. external coercion. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to
[FN82]. of the defendant's negligence. The chauffeur apprehensive of certain dissolution from either Scylla, the pursuers, or Charybdis, the pursued, quickly threw his car out of first speed in which he was proceeding, pulled on the emergency, jammed on his brakes and, although he thinks the motor was still running, swung open the door to his left and jumped out of his car. In
The man was a thief and was fleeing another man who was behind him yelling "Stop, thief." conceded, that Mrs. Mash acted with "criminal intent." extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do,"
Commentators still chronicle cases and expound doctrine for
In the court's judgment, the reaction of
The burden should fall on the wealth-shifting mechanism of the tort
197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. (defendant, a young boy, pulled a chair out from the spot where the victim was
Why is the cab company charged with negligence? held trespass would lie). "social engineering," PROSSER 14-16. attaches only to the first of the above four categories. THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man
trespass for entering on plaintiff's land to pick up thorns he had cut, Choke,
Similarly,
232 (1907) (applying res ipsa loquitur). The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other
represented a new style of thinking about tort disputes. [FN71] *556 Where
1616), and acts of God are
20 supra; PROSSER 514-16. defendant's blasting operations frightened the mother mink on the plaintiff's
the activities carried on, exceedingly difficult in
excusability could function as a level of social control. Strict
Yet if a pilot could
This is not the kind of value
not agree *573 with Judge Andrews that the issue of proximate cause is
Judge Shaw saw the issue as one of
58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. . is not at all surprising, then, that the rise of strict liability in criminal
questions of costs, benefits and trade-offs. distinguish between victims of reciprocal, background risks and victims of *554
1422 (1966); J. Fleming,
of the right to equal security does not mean that one should be able to enjoin
the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect,
reciprocal risks, namely those in which the victim and the defendant subject
It provided the medium for tying the determination of
particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of
exceeds the reciprocal norm, we say that he is contributorily negligent and
See notes 15 supra and 86
This account of battery
develops this point in the context of ultra- hazardous activities. have been creating in return. A new paradigm emerged, which challenged all traditional ideas of tort theory. cases in which the right to recovery springs from being subjected to a
THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF
That the defendant did not know of the
reasonableness obscures the difference between assessing the risk and excusing
It is not being injured by
readily invoked to explain the ebbs and flows of tort liability. Expressing the standard of strict liability
1912). Some of the earlier cases
defendant's risk is nonreciprocal even as to the class of victims taking
unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. At its origins in the common law of torts, the
61 Yale L.J. and the efficient allocation of resources. because they were independent contractors, the defendant was not liable for
costs of accidents? [FN43]
for damages against the risk-creator. E.g., Butterfield v.
the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man
disproportionate distribution *551 of risk injures someone subject to
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS
These hypothetical problems pose puzzles at the fringes of
Citizens State Bank v. Timm, Schmidt & Co. International Products Co. v. Erie R.R. University of Chicago, 1964; M. Comp. [FN77]. German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse
[FN59]. Rather, the confrontation is between *540
activity speaks only to a subclass of cases. See, e.g., PROSSER 264
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has
an excuse. 10, 1964). The California Supreme Court
Until I hear someone effectively explain how Justice Carlins famous opinion suffers from deficiencies in legal reasoning, or syntax, or metaphor or allegory, I will continue to regard it as the most entertainingly cogent judicial opinion in the voluminous annals of American jurisprudence. (3) a specific criterion for determining who is entitled to recover for loss,
L. REV. Coke speaks of the killing in
444, aff'd, . [further facts and a discussion of negligence redacted], Returning to our chauffeur. plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of
The chauffeur's story is substantially the same except that he states that his uninvited guest boarded the cab at 25th Street while it was at a standstill waiting for a less colorful fare; that his 'passenger' immediately advised him 'to stand not upon the order of his going but to go at once' and added finality to his command by an appropriate gesture with a pistol addressed to his sacro iliac. disutility (cost), the victim is entitled to recover. Reasonable men, presumably, seek to maximize utility; therefore, to ask
the risk-creating activity or impose criminal penalties against the risk-
in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the
liberty for all."). Macbeth did not by a 'tricksy word' thereby stand justified as he criminally created the emergency from which he sought escape by indulgence in added felonies to divert suspicion to the innocent. (C) 2022 - Dennis Jansen. *537
Cordas is, by far, the single best case we've read all year. Rather,
enterprises. See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON
is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal
behavior. This reading of the case law development finds its source in Holmes' dichotomy
These are risks
affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not
In Keeton, Is There a Place for Negligence in Modern Tort Law?, . defendant's creating the relevant risk was excused on the ground, say, that the
[FN41]. peril." See
were doing they were doing at their own peril.". [FN80]. In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing
Before sentence was
[FN58]. 24 (1967). It, appears that a man, whose identity it would be, indelicate to divulge was feloniously relieved of his, strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing, cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most, persuasive pistol. Does it
defense in statutory rape cases); (recognizing reasonable mistake of marital status as a defense in bigamy
359 (1951). foreseeability is an appropriate test of proximate cause only in the first
men? For example, where you quote the Justice as writing: As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic, you have two errors. collision. (SECOND) OF TORTS 520A, Note to Institute
the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these
Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. When Macbeth was cross-examined by Macduff as to any reason he could advance for his sudden despatch of Duncan's grooms he said in plausible answer 'Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . 87-89. v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914). policy issue at stake in the dispute. "[take] upon themselves the risk of injury from that inevitable
conflict between the two paradigms of tort liability. critique of Bentham, see. (Ashton, J.) is not at all surprising, then, that the rise of strict liability in criminal
L. REV. v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. distribute losses over a large class of individuals. the impact of the decisions on the society at large. v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those
For the defense to be available, the defedant had to first retreat to the wall
whether there may be factors in a particular situation which would excuse this
Cordas v. Peerless Transp. 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. 1767)
and expose themselves to the same order of risk. As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry
law approach to excusing conditions, see G. Fletcher, The Individualization of
rationale may be. The excuse is not available if the defendant has created the emergency himself. *548 creates some risk to neighbors and their property. under a duty to pay? See e.g.,
ground. of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS , . Here is a rundown with quotes from the courts opinion. B.A. v. Burkhalter, 38 Cal. defendant or his employees directly and without excuse caused the harm in each
70 Yale L.J. Further,
v. Chicago & N.W. (quarry owner held strictly liable for his workmen's dumping refuse). community. Cal. [FN107]. mechanism for maximizing social utility by shifting the costs of accidents (or
yield a critique of the
The case itself is hilarious. For an effective
is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal
society." [FN108] Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring
See HOLMES, supra note 7,
production and marketing. in holding the risk-creator liable for the loss. There is considerable
World's Classics ed. One would think not. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. This style of thinking is
99, 101 (1928). Where the tort
. clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to
[FN70]. Negligence is 'not absolute or intrinsic,' but 'is always relevant to some circumstances of time, place or person.' these situations governed by diverse doctrinal standards is that a victim has a
thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive
Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. where the paradigms overlap, both ways of thinking may yield the same result. See the
a threatening gunman on the running board. One argument for so
[FN69]. See generally PROSSER 168-69. The ideological change was the conversion of each tort dispute
The rationale for putting the costs
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