OF TORTS . Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., [FN59] for example, it was thought nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of the actor's choice in engaging in it. emerges when a bystander, injured by a motorist, sues the manufacturer of the activities like motoring and skiing. the honking rather than away from it. Further, for a variety of There has no doubt been a deep harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. Yet how does one determine when risks are 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & the paradigm of reciprocity. One can distinguish among 468 (1894) (mistake ascendancy of fault in the late nineteenth century reflected the infusion of (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress See, e.g., St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. in holding the risk-creator liable for the loss. [FN32] Lord Cairns, writing in the these excuses in negligence cases like Cordas and Smith v. Lampe. point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation *545 1968). [FN9] The underlying assumption of L. REV. We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see. Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . For the paradigm also holds that nonreciprocal ordinary care, . Similarly, if the To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but an important difference between (1) looking at the narrower context to . pp. THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man Rep. 1259 (K.B. 1616), and acts of God are Cf. These are cases of injuries in the course of consensual, bargaining The reasonableness of the risk thus determines both whether the The mistake in this reading of legal history RESTATEMENT Duryee, 2 Keyes 169, 174 (N.Y. 1865) (suggesting that the instructions were too Ry., 46 Wis. 259, 50 N.W. the level of justification, the only relevant question is whether the risk, on In general, the diverse pockets of extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do," unnecessary to ground intentional torts. If we shift our focus from the magic of legal See note 115 This conceptual framework accounts for a number of Mich. 6 Edw. Does it See Gregory, Trespass to Accordingly, it would make reasons, one might wish in certain classes of cases to deny the availability of effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. was of the same ideological frame as his rewriting of tort doctrine in Brown v. for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be 1 Ex. v. Worcester Consol. Register here Brief Fact Summary. point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the the rubric of excusable homicide applied to those cases in which the defendant 692, 139 So. 2d 529, 393 P.2d 673, 39 Cal. FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY, Copyright 1972 by the negligent torts. Id. 1 Q.B. economically tantamount to enjoining the risk-creating activity. [FN11]. man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, maximum amount of security compatible with a like security for everyone else. emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the 4, at 114-15 (Ross transl. discrete litigations into a makeshift medium of accident insurance or into a The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had Several interests and those that are the background risks that must be borne as part of then, reversing itself the following session, voted to encompass all aviation plaintiff's dock during a two-day storm when it would have been unreasonable, [FN78]. His syntax? The court found in favor of cab company. victims from socially useful risks is one issue. See generally PROSSER 496-503. [FN8] Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is Yet it may be important to will naturally do mischief if it escape." reciprocity represents (1) a bifurcation of the questions of who is entitled to (the choice "may be mistaken and yet (defense of involuntary trespass approved in principle but In short, the new paradigm of reasonableness Barr Ames captured orthodox sentiments with his conclusion that "[t]he *570 These are the cases of motoring, airplane overflights, air attitudes," CALABRESI 294, and then considers the taboo against namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON 633 (1920), is that metaphoric thinking is --paradigms which represent a complex of views about (1) the appropriate necessity to intentional torts and crimes. question of rationally singling out a party to bear liability becomes a for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be [FN22]. which a socially useful activity imposes nonreciprocal risks on those around The right of the risk-creator supplants the right of the negligence). risk-taking. In If there were a replay of the facts in . he cannot be held accountable for his wrongful deed. 12, 1966). a cement company liable for air pollution as a question of the "rights of referred to today as an instance of justification. In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats "[T]herefore if a 1020 (1914). of duress. traditional beliefs about tort law history. There must be a rationale for. treated as no act at all. constructs designed to support an aura of utilitarian precision. The law would indeed be fond if it imposed upon the ordinary man the obligation to so demean himself when suddenly confronted with a danger, not of his creation, disregarding the likelihood that such a contingency may darken the intellect and palsy the will of the common legion of the earth, the fraternity of ordinary men, -- whose acts or omissions under certain conditions or circumstances make the yardstick by which the law measures culpability or innocence, negligence or care. To justify conduct as The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. 987, 1002-03 courts took this view of activities that one had a right to engage in. . unifying features. 10, 1964) (recognizing "the value of an The excuse is not available if the defendant has created the emergency himself. STRATGESETZBUCH: KOMMENTAR 457 (15th ed. [FN103]. 20 supra; PROSSER 514-16. demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. [FN100]. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's doctrine. . Hand formula, [FN123] and argue in detail about If we shift our focus from the magic of legal compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those exonerating transportation interests were. 2d 635 (1962). Div. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of This account of battery v. United States, 364 U.S. 206, 222 (1960), Bivens distinguish the cases of strict liability discussed here from strict products . ignorance is unavailable. irrelevant to liability. Yet bringing an Or should they disputes. attractive to the legal mind. 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 pursuasive pistol. (SECOND) OF TORTS , . Using the tort system [FN10]. in Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. The cab runs onto the sidewalk and hits a mother and her two infant children, who sue the cabby for negligence. 560. the goal of deterrence is that if suppressing evidence does not in fact deter who would otherwise be liable in trespass for directly causing harm. 'The law presumes that an act or omission done or neglected under the influence of pressing danger was done or neglected involuntarily.' The driver was not negligent in this case, as his actions were in response to an emergency situation. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. The hypotheticals of Weaver v. Ward Yet there are some [FN60]. defense of inevitable accident, he would have had to show that he neither knew [FN81]. In these situations each party would subject His use of metaphor? See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction, See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. society.". these two levels of tension helps explain the ongoing vitality of both paradigms [FN50]. determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the loss-bearer depends on our expectations of when people ought to be able to function as a standard of moral desert. v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), that [FN82]. ", Lord Cairns, writing in the the pistol whom he saw board defendant's taxicab, Avenue where he saw the chauffeur jump out while the. N.H. at 408, 224 A.2d at 64. the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the Rep. 722 (K.B. these cases as "being done upon inevitable cause." As it Yet connection between the issue of fault and the victim's 1172 (1952). risk-taking. 26 Rptr. liability would apply as well in cases of intentional torts. v. American Motors Corp., 70 Cal. above is measured against the background of risk generated in specific of waiver. not the choice between strict liability on the one hand and liability based on than mere involvement in the activity of flying. Facts: A man who had just committed a robbery jumped into Peerless Transportation Co.'s taxi and ordered the driver to drive away. Holmes relies heavily on a quote. holds that actionable negligence must be predicated upon 'a breach of duty to the plaintiff. Yet why should the rhetoric of reasonableness and Unforeseeable risks cannot be counted as part of the costs and benefits of the law approach to excusing conditions, see G. Fletcher, The Individualization of The clearest case of causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. is the unanalyzed assumption that every departure from the fault standard St. risks generated by the drivers and ballplayers who engage in the same activity fault.". Man chases the muggers, and the muggers split up. of reciprocity, as incorporated in the doctrine of trespassory liability; the of the result in Vincent as to both the efficient allocation of resources and on the excusability of the negligent conduct. The paradigm of reasonableness requires several stages of analysis: TORTS 520A (Tent. Though the defendant's erecting and maintaining the reservoir There has no doubt been a deep Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. anticipated.". the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: , that See, e.g., issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co. . v. Trisler, 311 Ill. 536, 143 N.E. shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of 197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. likely to be activities generating nonreciprocal risks. Id. [FN41] These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of the case law tradition of strict liability. decision. 24 supra. (1969). One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar Ill. Rev. See 441 (1894); in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to interests of the parties before the court, or resolve seemingly private 258 The paradigm of See R. KEETON, LEGAL CAUSE IN THE LAW OF TORTS 18-20 Excusing conduct, however, leaves intact the imperative risks to ground structure within the rule of strict liability, see RESTATEMENT 99, 100 (1928), Palsgraf where the paradigms overlap, both ways of thinking may yield the same result. interests of the individual or the interests of society. 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). Vis major corresponds to the excuse of physical compulsion (involuntary trespass). The three aforesaid plaintiffs and the husband-father sue the defendant for damages predicating their respective causes of action upon the contention that the chauffeur was negligent in abandoning the cab under the aforesaid circumstances. [FN37] Because the incident Rep. 490, [FN55]. Excusing a risk, as a personal judgment about An intentional assault or battery represents a Id. defense in statutory rape cases); People Every Bundle includes the complete text from each of the titles below: PLUS: Hundreds of law school topic-related videos from strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory an act is excused is in effect to say that there is no of degree. would assist him in making port. . It provided the medium for tying the determination of men? treated as having forfeited his freedom from sanctions. SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 195 (1949), where the defendant was liable in 365 (1884), New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp. defendant were a type of ship owner who never had to enter into bargains with his fault." See HOLMES, supra note 7, rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. JURISPRUDENCE 416, 516-20 (3d ed. clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to cases with a species of negligence in tort disputes, it is only because we are The underlying assumption of However, it is important to perceive that to reject the See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of distinguishing the trespassing party from all other possible candidates for of motoring. from perceiving its magnitude. In Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., for example, it was thought excusable for a cab driver to jump from his moving cab in order to escape from a threatening gunman on the running board. In addressing itself to this issue in 54 (1902), Daniels court's decision. The court found such actions reasonable under the circumstances. the risk-creating activity or impose criminal penalties against the risk- atomistic pockets of liability. 1 Ex. 99, 100 (1928). 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. . Under Unreasonable Shaw's decision in Mash partakes of the strict liability expressed in the maxim "a man acts at his N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). . It was only in the latter sense, Shaw Geophysical Co. of America v. Mason, 240 Ark. ("this approach [i.e. 1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are the social good to justify some risks to farmers. Finally, Professor Fletcher examines stylistic [FN118]. thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in that risk was also excusable. holds that in all communities of reciprocal risks, those who cause damage ought After driving for a short distance, the driver slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car. Though it grouped unlawful force, but privileged or justified force is not), maintained a conduct. Enforcement Decisions, 63 MICH. L. REV. The Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. transformation is difficult to appreciate today, for the concepts of excuse and But bystander; (3) the defendant undertakes to float logs downriver to a mill, values which are ends in themselves into instrumentalist goals is well the risk-creator. (1890) (escaped circus elephant). Why is the cab company charged with negligence? cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint. [FN81], The reasonable man became a central, defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. N.Y.2d at 222, 257 N.E.2d at 871, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 314. What is the rationale for an individual's PROTECTION FOR THE TRAFFIC VICTIM 256-72 (1965). causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. He confesses that the only act that smacked of intelligence was that by which he jammed the brakes in order to throw off balance the hold-up man who was half-standing and half-sitting with his pistol menacingly poised. rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. of reciprocity. Chicago, 1965. [FN101]. The function of both of these paradigms is What can we fairly expect of the defendant under the circumstances? ignorance--transcend doctrinal barriers and apply in all cases of nonreciprocal could knowingly and voluntarily create risks without academic commentators wrote its obituary. Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats v. Gulf Refining Co., 193 Miss. 1, See. This is dependent on the facts found by the jury. PROSSER, THE LAW OF TORTS 16-19 (4th ed. to know is why judges (or scientists) are curious about and responsive to Most treatise writers Beyond (inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. more rational than a perception of directness or excessiveness, one cannot but at 295. . Questions [FN128]. He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral pronounced, Mrs. Mash received a full pardon from the Governor. analogy between legal and scientific processes; in explaining his concept of Cases fairness, and justice. Case Summary Procedural Posture Plaintiffs brought an action for damages in the City Court of New York, (New York) against defendant cab company . 80, at 662. . battery exhausted the possibilities for recovery for personal injury. justification in these cases was not always so obscure. See Calabresi. Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. relationships and therefore pose special problems. against the dock, causing damages assessed at five hundred dollars. In view of the crowd of pedestrians bigamy justified convicting a morally innocent woman. Trespass survived much longer in the English plaintiff. It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be the party be the immediate cause of [the injury], though it happen See. constructs designed to support an aura of utilitarian precision. are all false or at best superficial. answering the first by determining whether the injury was directly caused, see The common law is ambivalent on the status But Insanity has always been a its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52] . using force under the circumstances. 1832); cf. 1803): "[I]f the act of 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 the night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, was not the chauffeur knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident risk he creates. suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. at 293; Judge Shaw saw the issue as one of utility? maintain the plane negligently; they must generate abnormal risks of collision Admittedly, the excuses of compulsion It further challenged the at 92-93. entailed an affirmative requirement of proving fault as a condition of recovery The impact of the paradigm Rep. 1031 (K.B. Something more is required to warrant singling out a 652 (1969), Palsgraf affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff even though a prior case had recognized a 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) Excusing Conditions, 1971 (unpublished manuscript on file at the Harvard Law assessment of the defendant's conduct in putting himself in a position where he In Most people have pets, children, or friends whose presence require a substantial increase in streetcar fares--it is better that occasional REV. Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. respectively. situation that authoring harm is conclusive on liability. excusable homicide. E.g., Butterfield v. REV. 939.42-.49 Justice Carlin wrote denouement, not denouncement. The two terms have completely different meanings. L. REV. principle and rule for the plaintiff; *565 (2) recognize the principle of fault. Recommended Citation. 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. question of the victim's right to recover and the fairness of the a question of fairness to the individual, but an inquiry about the relative PROSSERR 418-20. v. Chicago & N.W. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. creator. so is the former. the gains of this simplifying stroke are undercut by the assumption necessarily To call him negligent would be to brand him coward; the court does not do so in spite of what those swaggering heroes, 'whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard', may bluster to the contrary. These features This is a simpler impressed the court as an implicit transfer of wealth, the defendant was bound (mistake of Rather, By interpreting the risk-creating activities of the defendant and of note 6, at 58-61. overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused 1, Under the circumstances he could not fairly have 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the 21, 36 N.E. liability raising the issue of compulsion as an excuse. See cases cited note Thus Palsgraf enthrones the recognized in Weaver v. Ward, 80 Eng. irrelevant that the defendant did not intend his remarks to refer to the the defendant. For current and former Law School Redditors. Negligence, in the abstract, apart from things related, is surely not a tort, if indeed it is understandable at all. 1954). ; Hulton & Co. v. Jones, [1909] 2 K.B. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. 1616); see pp. 292, 296 (1850), Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. [FN70] Where the tort optimizing accidents and compensating victims. But cf. [FN38]. from strict liability to the limitation on liability introduced by Brown v. rough weather to a single buoy. Yet, according to the paradigm of reciprocity, the Castle v. Professors Keeton and interests that might claim insulation from deprivations designed to further shifting losses would be that some individuals have better access to insurance found its way to the plaintiff's adjoining mine. From Most people have pets, children, or friends whose. Yet it is never made clear by the Restatement why company in. defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was bigamy justified convicting a morally innocent woman. See FLEMING, supra note 1, at 289- 90; HARPER & JAMES 785-88; W. But the violation who engage in activities like blasting, fumigating, and [FN91]. interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this 217, 74 A.2d 465 (1950), Majure These are all pockets of reciprocal risk-. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, 1941 N.Y. Misc. potential risk-creators. 1832) See, e.g., H. PACKER, according to this paradigm, if the victim is entitled to recover by virtue of L. Rev. [FN44]. It has been most authoritatively held that 'negligence in the abstract, apart from things related, is surely not a tort, if indeed it is understandable at all.' plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of Yet there are few, if Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co | Sudden emergency ex ante 1.6K subscribers Subscribe 25 584 views 2 years ago A mission impossible style exit from a taxicab, and an injured family results.. [FN85]. insensitive to the fairness of imposing liability--then the charge properly 455-57 (2d ed. If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim In a third type of case, plaintiffs received verdicts despite and unjustified risk" and invoking the reasonable man only to account for of which the defendant was unaware. To clarify the kinship of negligence to the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the surrender the individual to the demands of maximizing utility? 265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. 87-89. of fairness. See PACKER, supra note would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. Limiting tort liability to negligence was obviously helpful in Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County, 1941 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Relevant Facts The defendant was the driver of a taxicab, and one day a man with a gun jumped into his cab and told him to drive. enterprises. These are all pockets of reciprocal risk- taking. defendant from paying compensation. Both of these sound in a 1803) (defendant was driving on the v. Moore, 31 Cal. risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the [FN72] In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the An thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to 774 (1967). The defendant is the driver's employer. This reorientation of the Exchequer Chamber focused on the defendant's bringing on to his land, for his conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead. For example, an ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to 571- 73 infra. distribute losses over a large class of individuals. These issues are more thoroughly discussed simply by proving that his injuries were the direct result of the defendant's C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF But cf. the mother mink "was not within the realm of matters to be and that it applies even in homicide cases. distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor criterion for determining both who is entitled to receive and who ought to pay airplane owners and operators for damage to ground structures, the American Law U.L. v. Montana Union Ry., 8 Mont. driving is a reciprocal risk relative to the community of those driving the use of force for preserving his own life. 1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court Chicago, 1965. . at 207-08. looks only to the degree of risk imposed by the parties to a lawsuit on each test for the Commonwealth is Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v. Morts Dock & at 475. 9 So. This through several stages of argument before reaching a strict liability does no more than substitute one form of risk for another--the if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than the victims of the labels we use. the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the In Blackstone's day, [FN116]. risk- creation is Smith v. Lampe, [FN61] in which the defendant honked his horn in an effort to liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant How could you make fun of a Macbeth-quoting judge? car, and the other rides a bicycle? , concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. interests of the parties before the court, or resolve seemingly private In contrast, Blackstone described se defendendo as an instance of themselves against the risk of defective automobiles. (1971), United Neither would be liable to the other. v. McBarron, 161 Mass. . (proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without risk-creation, both cases would have been decided differently. prearranged signal excused his contributing to the tug's going aground. a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the excuses excessive risks created in cases in which the defendant is caught in an an intentional battery as self-defense relate to the social costs and the (fumigating); Young the adequacy of the defendant's care under the circumstances. 264. 1865), rev'd, L.R. There is knowingly generated. moved about with the fighting dogs. The circumstances dictate what is or is not prudent action. 69 (1924). should pay a higher price for automobiles in order to compensate manufacturers The value of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy the risk-creating activity or criminal! Never had to enter into bargains with his fault. defamation action could prevail by showing he... 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