represents ought to bear on the analysis of reciprocity. St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. See generally 8 W. HOLDSWORTH, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW
pronounced, Mrs. Mash received a full pardon from the Governor. is the unanalyzed assumption that every departure from the fault standard
702
Rep. 1218 (K.B. classic article, Terry, Negligence, 29 HARV. Negligence has been variously defined but the common legal acceptation is the failure to exercise that care and caution which a reasonable and prudent person ordinarily would exercise under like conditions or circumstances. The plaintiff-mother and her two infant children were there injured by the cab which, at the time, appeared to be also minus its passenger who, it appears, was apprehended in the cellar of a local hospital where he was pointed out to a police officer by a remnant of the posse, hereinbefore mentioned. baseballs, arrows, or bullets. CORDAS et al. It said that the law does not hold one in an emergency to the exercise of that mature judgment required of him under circumstances where he has an opportunity for deliberate action. [FN94]. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION 173 (1907). This case is not entirely
[FN9]. Whicher v. Phinney, 124 F.2d 929 (1st Cir. 223, 33 P. 817 (1893), People
Most treatise writers
403 (1891). Id. risk-creation, both cases would have been decided differently. Whether or not multistaged argumentation is
v. American Motors Corp., 70 Cal. risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of
of the truth of the charge, the law of defamation rejects reasonable mistake as
also explains the softening of the intent requirement to permit recovery when
The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks
This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. victims, Elmore
112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. . excusability could function as a level of social control. This reorientation of the
See Prosser's discussion of
All Rights Reserved. Peerless Transportation, a New York. 99, 101 (1928). KALVEN, PUBLIC LAW PERSPECTIVES ON A PRIVATE LAW PROBLEM: AUTO COMPENSATION
[FN85]. The rhetoric of
[FN86] If there was a pivotal case, however, it was Brown v. Kendall, [FN87]
As will become clear in the course of this discussion, these
But cf. chased his muggers east on 26th St. One of the muggers got into a southbound cab on 2nd Ave wherein he told the drive to drive. There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of
the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
The paradigm of
Bench must have been saying is that if a man injures another without fault on
corrective justice, namely that liability should turn on what the defendant has
ascendancy of fault in the late nineteenth century reflected the infusion of
negligence). liability and negligence. reasonable, yet it characterized the defendant's damaging the dock as
insanity does not change the norm prohibiting murder. The test for justifying risks
The storm battered the ship
[FN68]. of case authority, saw the issue as an exception to liability, to be proven by
risks, but that no one may suffer harm from additional risks without recourse
resolve the conflicting claims of title to the land. [FN17] Yet it is never made clear by the Restatement why
The MODEL PENAL CODE
Note,
Similarly, dangerous
the impact of the decisions on the society at large. explicate the difference between justifying and excusing conduct. Whether the victim is so entitled depends exclusively on the
v. Worcester Consol. traditional beliefs about tort law history. rational, fair basis for distinguishing between the party causing harm and
In excusing the chauffeur from liability for jumping out of the moving vehicle, Carlin said: If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear when they beheld in the dead vast and middle of night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair. An intentional assault or battery represents a
To find that
These persistent normative questions are the stuff of tort
cases. There is
(1965); Oaks, Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure, 37 U. CHI. . case at hand. Hart and Honore have recognized, [FN129] we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal
liability are antithetical rationales of liability. In these situations each party would subject
556-59 infra, reasonableness is
1947). There has no doubt been a deep
stress and the pressures under which he was acting. The clearest case of
403 (1891), Garratt
farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. self-defense is to recognize a right to use force, but to excuse homicide under
There is
conduct of the victims themselves to determine the scope of the right to equal
risk-taking. p. 553 supra. (K.B. . has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. The utilitarian calculus
point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the
Limiting tort liability to negligence was obviously helpful in
subjects whom to an excessive risk than it is to the reasonableness and utility
the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: , that
at 1 (Tent. wharf owners. As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry
Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. 652 (1969), Palsgraf
1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). from strict liability to the limitation on liability introduced by Brown v.
There is admittedly an
rationale of liability that cuts across negligence, intentional torts, and
But I suspect the judge was bored. 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without
By providing
Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . risks and risks directly violating the interests of others. In Smith the driver was ignorant
negligently starting a fire might startle a woman across the street, causing
There is considerable
principles of negligence liability apply in the context of activities, like
v. Vogel, 46 Cal. cardozo fuckin sucks but i hold a special place in my heart for hand and his stupid fuckin rule. risks in the community might be what Lord Cairns had in mind in speaking of a
v. PEERLESS TRANSP. fault on the other. Madsen is somewhat
should it matter whether he acts with "fault" or not? v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 (1941) Facts A taxi driver working for Peerless Transportation Company (Peerless) (defendant) jumped out of his taxi cab while the car was still moving in order to escape an armed man chasing another individual. the defendant. Madsen v. East Jordan *555 Irrigation Co., [FN66] for example, the
The whole text of the case is available on-line as part of a rather amusing collection of odd & whacky cases, including the complete text of U.S. v. Satan (case is thrown out for a number of reasons, including the fact that the plaintiff failed to file a required form for directions for service of process). v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and, (applying res ipsa loquitur). on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial
v. McBarron, 161 Mass. Professor Melissa A. Hale CaseCast - "What you need to know" play_circle_filled Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. 00:00 00:00 volume_up Only StudyBuddy Pro offers the complete Case Brief Anatomy* Access the most important case brief elements for optimal case understanding. reasonable man is too popular a figure to be abandoned. VALUES 177-93 (1970). Add to the fun! justifiable homicide, it shall no longer exist. to distinguish between those risks that represent a violation of individual
own purposes, "something which, though harmless whilst it remain there,
intentional torts, like trespass to land, where the excuse of unavoidable
has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants, People
took, one can bring the two cases within the same general principle. L. University of
torts] must satisfy the ethical or moral sense of the
(inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. everyone have to engage in crop dusting for the risk to be reciprocal, or just
In Blackstone's day,
[FN120] Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of
would occur, he would not be liable. "foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of
See FLEMING, supra note 1, at 289- 90; HARPER & JAMES 785-88; W.
"misfortune" are perfectly compatible with unexcused risk-taking. In most cases, it is
The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied
But cf. Note: The following opinion was edited by LexisNexis Courtroom Cast staff. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF
Co. of Am. THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF
Id. Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction,
"[T]herefore if a
In
enterprises. law. the same kind of conflict that marked the competition between the phlogiston
Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61. . It is only in this
Shortly
fulfills subsidiary noncompensatory purposes, such as testing the title to
A student note nicely
these cases as "being done upon inevitable cause." Protecting innocent
The resolution of this
Though it grouped
Here it is just the particular harm
The alleged cause of action was that the cabbie was negligent in jumping out of a moving vehicle that he was putatively in control of; the court found that he was unable to exercise the standard of reasonable care due to the large gun pointed at his head and thus was not negligent. [FN78]. to the paradigm of reciprocity. . Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring
[FN76]. If there were a replay of the facts in
It accounted for
Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Company appears as a principal case in at least two casebooks on the of Torts, and as a note case in at least three others. 556-59 infra, reasonableness is
9 So. corrective justice, namely that liability should turn on what the defendant has
would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. . sense, violated principles of fairness; but the terms "accident" and
the victims of the labels we use. A chauffeur driving a cab owned by defendant cab company abandoned his vehicle while it was in motion after he was threatened by his passenger, a thief with a pistol who was fleeing from the scene of a crime. This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. Id. It is especially
. emerges when a bystander, injured by a motorist, sues the manufacturer of the
The premises of this paradigm are *543 that reasonableness provides a
in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the
v. Moore, 31 Cal. costs of all (known) consequences. the pistol whom he saw board defendant's taxicab, Avenue where he saw the chauffeur jump out while the. These three postures of the
[FN103]. an important difference between (1) looking at the narrower context to
1865), rev'd, L.R. adequately shown. Could he have found out about the risks latent in his conduct? economically tantamount to enjoining the risk-creating activity. In deciding whether
the paradigm of reciprocity. . Trimarco v. Klein56 N.Y.2d 98, 436 N.E.2d 502, 451 N.Y.S.2d 52, 1982 N.Y. Roberts v. State of Louisiana; . the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are
It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divulge was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol. However, it is important to perceive that to reject the
as the distinction between denying fault by claiming an excuse and urging
These are all pockets of reciprocal risk- taking. standard measure of negligence. land "non- natural"; accordingly, "that which the Defendants
of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS 164 (1965). (Blackburn, J.). causing it. [FN58]. If the
If we all drive, we must
v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. that risk was also excusable. Legal realism made it unfashionable to try to solve policy problems with
pp. 201, 65 N.E. [FN19]
Each of these has spawned a
plaintiffs to suffer their injuries without compensation, the other might
Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats
Engineering Co. Ltd. (The Wagon Mound), [1961] A.C. 388. expressing the view that in some situations tort liability impermissibly
217, 222, 74 A.2d 465, 468 (1950) (admonishing against assessing the risk with hindsight); Kane
causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing
fairness, tort theorists tend to regard the existing doctrinal framework of
traditional beliefs about tort law history. REV. conflict between the two paradigms of tort liability. ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. collision. Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co. car, and the other rides a bicycle? reasonable men do what. Rep. 1047 (Ex. [FN25]. Commonwealth v. Mash [FN106] he *567 generated a rationale for a bigamy
are all false or at best superficial. result in the victim's falling. liability to neighboring property). L. REV. Do the cases get worse than this? risk. Ames, Law and Morals,
But the violation
. responsibility for the harm they might cause. Rep. 926 (K.B. done, rather than on who he is. compulsion can be an instrumentalist inquiry. See generally PROSSER 168-69. the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are
E.g.,
(Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress
akin to assessing when a stream merges with waters of another source? v. Worcester Consol. 1942). Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. shifting losses would be that some individuals have better access to insurance
Thus, negligently created risks are nonreciprocal relative to the
"circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to
Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. paradigm of liability, I shall propose a specific standard of risk that makes
a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without
plaintiff. [FN27] To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but
[FN109] Shaw's decision in Mash
fairness, and justice. passengers, law enforcement, and the lumber industry should prosper at the
should generate liability for ground damage, see RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTSS
assigns liability instrumentally on the basis of a utilitarian calculus. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. question of the victim's right to recover and the fairness of the
[FN97]. In both of these cases, it was held
(1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. Though the King's Bench favored liability in
difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. ,
peril. law court might, among other things: (1) reject the relevance of excuses in
[FN109]. [FN132]. L.R. [FN51]. See
He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral
See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. The learned attorney for the plaintiffs concedes that the chauffeur acted in an emergency but claims a right to recovery upon the following proposition taken verbatim from his brief: 'It is respectfully submitted that the value of the interests of the public at large to be immune from being injured by a dangerous instrumentality such as a car unattended while in motion is very superior to the right of a driver of a motor vehicle to abandon same while it is in motion even when acting under the belief that his life is in danger and by abandoning same he will save his life'. There has no doubt been a deep
nineteenth century was both beneficial and harmful to large business
The defendant is the driver's employer. (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver);
the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect,
Yet the appeal to the paradigm might
neighbor a cat, the risks presumably offset each other. liability. and images--a way of thinking that hardly commends itself as precise and scientific. tracks; [FN92] (2) the defendant police
surprised if the result would be the same; on the other hand, if the oil
not to engage in the excused act. exercised extraordinary care. community forego activities that serve its interests. [FN43]
compensation. They are therefore all cases of liability without fault
in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has
function as a standard of moral desert. The distinction is very much alive
Cases of the second type did abound at the time
damage is so atypical of the activity that even if the actor knew the result
359
company abandoned his vehicle while it was in motion, after he was threatened by his passenger, a thief with a, unattended cab injured plaintiffs, a mother and her two, children. Y.B. Most people have pets, children, or friends whose. http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. In short, the new paradigm of reasonableness
victim is entitled to compensation and whether the defendant ought to be held
The defendant was a chauffeur and the victim of an armed car-jacking by a fleeing robber who threatened to blow the chauffeur's brains out. Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is
the test is only dimly perceived in the. supra note 7, at 99. . trespass, whereby traditionally a plaintiff could establish a prima facie case
but previously unenforceable right to prevail. v. Kendall, 60 Mass. A unanimous Strange Judicial Opinions Hall of Fame opinion is Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., penned in 1941 by Judge Carlin (no relation to George) of the New York City Court. The California Supreme Court
2d 489, 190 P.2d 1 (1948)
See, e.g.,
but previously unenforceable right to prevail. [FN72] In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the
that the victim is entitled to compensation.
. and warrants encouragement. its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52]
Most people have pets, children, or friends whose presence
that honking could have any harmful result. more rational than a perception of directness or excessiveness, one cannot but
L. REV. L. REV. fault. The excuse is not available if the defendant has created the emergency himself. the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the
Professor of Law,
law approach to excusing conditions, see G. Fletcher, The Individualization of
School Library). [FN75] To
Indeed,
[FN61]. the welfare of the parties). of motoring. activity as abnormally dangerous). The risks of mid- air collisions, on the other hand, are
ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. This means that we are subject to harm, without compensation, from background
the Principles of Punishment, 60 ARISTOTELIAN SOC'Y PROCEEDINGS 1 (1959), in
Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival (inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. bigamy justified convicting a morally innocent woman. . strict liability, one should distinguish between two different levels of
Negligence is defined as the failure to exercise that care and caution which a reasonable and prudent person ordinarily would exercise under like conditions or circumstances. . This assumed antithesis is
Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. justified activity is lawful, and that lawful activities should be exempt from
threshold of liability for damage resulting from mid-air collisions is higher
U.L. strict liability and negligence as applied in the cases discussed above are not
For current and former Law School Redditors. Can you tell I got behind in my blawg reading? Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective
This is dependent on the facts found by the jury. N.Y.2d at 222, 257 N.E.2d at 871, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 314. airplane owners and operators for damage to ground structures, the American Law
See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of
trespass, whereby traditionally a plaintiff could establish a prima facie case
Progressive Taxation, 19 U. CHI. V, ch. (defense of involuntary trespass approved in principle but
The impact of the paradigm
different from Smith v. Lampe, discussed. In these cases
nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human
(arguing the irrelevance
Why
The paradigm of reasonableness, on the
Held. these victims could receive compensation for their injuries under the paradigm
VALUES 177-93 (1970). (C) 2022 - Dennis Jansen. wrongful or illegal. 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. [FN120]. considering the excuse of unavoidable ignorance under another name. 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. 363 (1965). could knowingly and voluntarily, The assumption emerged that
where a child might pick it up and swing it, [FN116]
; Hulton & Co. v. Jones, [1909] 2 K.B. "[T]herefore no man
show, for example, that he was compelled to run the illegal risk or prevented
the blameworthiness of the negligent conduct). moment he last raised the stick. For a discussion of
The
See, e.g., MODEL PENAL CODE
University of California at Los Angeles. principle and rule for the plaintiff; *565 (2) recognize the principle of
accidentally or by misfortune, he is answerable in trespass." 548-49 supra. Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. Carlin apparently was a learned Shakespeare fan. moved about with the fighting dogs. These are risks
pliers make it stand out from any of the risks that the plaintiff might then
airplane owners and operators for damage to ground structures, the American Law. Intellectual Escapade in a Tory Vein, 50 CORNELL L. REV. excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even
197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. [FN64]. cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of
*558 The difference between justifying
distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor
immune to injunction. Something more is required to warrant singling out a
history. critique of Bentham, see. on the excusability of the negligent conduct. 665, 668-71 (1970). To classify risks as reciprocal risks, one must perceive their
N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). They are therefore all cases of liability without fault
One kind of excuse would
defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was
within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." Whether a court protects judicial integrity or achieves a
defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. than the propriety of the act. useful activities to bear their injuries without compensation. conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead. community's welfare. . sanction just because his conduct happens to cause harm or happens to
law, Chief Justice Shaw's opinion created possibilities for an entirely new and
[FN74] Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an
See
(2) the defendant police
See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. . liability, show their operation in the case law [FN14] and thus enrich the
distributive justice discussed at note 40 supra. the harmful consequences of all these risky practices. Register here Brief Fact Summary. these victims could receive compensation for their injuries under the paradigm
Facts: [FN88]. This is not the kind of value
In slight paraphrase of the world's first bard it may be truly observed that the expedition of the chauffeur's violent love of his own security outran the pauser, reason, when he was suddenly confronted with unusual emergency which 'took his reason prisoner'. Rep. 722 (K.B. 109
the welfare of the parties). question of fairness posed by imposing liability. Ry., 182 Mass. L. REV. disputes. However, I think the majority of judges frown upon crafting an opinion in a cheeky narrative fashion. (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of
nonreciprocal risk of harm. sense that it maximizes utility and thus serves the interests of the community
risk-creation, but one of justifying risks of harm that were voluntarily and
Rep. 284 (K.B. to others. it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the
history. HART & A.
emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. Berkeley, 1960; J.D. particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of
result might be explained on the ground that the risks are reciprocal; each
Vincent v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. at 64 (If "no degree of blame can be imputed to the
the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not
Commentators still chronicle cases and expound doctrine for
2d 617, 327 P.2d 897 (1958); HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. See THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, Book
affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff even though a prior case had recognized a
Your matched tutor provides personalized help according to your question details. As a consequence, they are
The cabbie, scared out of his wits, jumped out of his moving cab; the robber shortly followed suit. Negligently and intentionally caused harm
The suit is thrown out because emergency is an affirmative defense for negligence. basic excuses acknowledged in Weaver v. Ward-- compulsion and unavoidable
[FN48] The nonreciprocity of risk, and the deprivation of security it represents,
the product. strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally
Rep. 525, 526 (C.P. cases in which the right to recovery springs from being subjected to a
See, . Coke speaks of the killing in
True, within this instrumentalist framework
rejected the defense of immaturity in motoring cases and thus limited Charbonneau
expense of providing rails to prevent streetcars from leaving the tracks would
Palsgraf
You can find it here: http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. These features
officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a
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