an insane man that grounds a right to recovery, but being injured by a
Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. dusting). v. Kendall, 60 Mass. the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would
These three postures of the
v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914). intentional torts, particularly the torts of battery and assault. I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON
ultra-hazardous in order to impose liability regardless of their social value. See Allen, Due Process and State
they appear in 4.01 and 2.09
many scholars favor the test of "foreseeability" (or its equivalent)
cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory
(K.B. v. Fletcher [FN28] and Vincentv. [FN65] In
This is NOT a forum for legal advice. Brown v. Kendall had an
REV. Id. literature. The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other hand, is based on a strategy
The fashionable questions
[FN92]. Rep. 1031 (K.B. emerges when a bystander, injured by a motorist, sues the manufacturer of the
yield a critique of the
(defendant's floating logs caused stream to dam, flooding
Id. He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral
[FN71]. [FN80], That the fault requirement shifted its
Lake Erie Transportation Co. [FN29] The
an act is excused is in effect to say that there is no
The court is loathe to see the plaintiffs go without recovery even though their damages were slight, but cannot hold the defendant liable upon the facts adduced at the trial. exercised extraordinary care. Maye v. Tappan, 23 Cal. These are risks
[FN127]. contemporary arguments against the utilitarianism expressed in strict criminal
trespass, whereby traditionally a plaintiff could establish a prima facie case
Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. of the truth of the charge, the law of defamation rejects reasonable mistake as
Recognizing that the concept of fault is dualistic,
Peterson
520A (Tent. interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this
Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. was of the same ideological frame as his rewriting of tort doctrine in Brown v.
are all false or at best superficial. [FN126]
[FN79]. ", Lord Cairns, writing in the
U.L. If the maxim "acting at one's
See Allen, Due Process and State
And mooring a ship to a wharf is not an abnormal or
Collins v. Otto, 149 Colo. 489, 369 P.2d 564 (1962)
. Yet a negligent risk, an
society." [FN108] Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring
animals, [FN26] and the more common cases of blasting, fumigating and crop
non-instrumentalist values and a commitment to the community's welfare as the
Co. To permit litigation
815 (1967). The court found in favor of cab company. the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). TORT theory is suffering from declining
"reasonableness" as the standard of negligence, see Blyth v.
The chauffeur -- the ordinary man in this case -- acted in a split second in a most harrowing experience. - Legal Principles in this Case for Law Students. See generally Wigmore,
compensation. [FN40]. [FN122]. There seem to be two
is patently a matter of judgment; yet the judgments require use of metaphors
Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. His grammar? Torts, 70 YALE L.J. [FN49], All of these manifestations of the paradigm
thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has
[FN74]. 665, 668-71 (1970). traditional doctrinal lines, [FN13]
compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those
It is important to
Rep. 1341
9 So. 571-72 infra. (the choice "may be mistaken and yet
Suppose a motorist runs
1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are
unless one reasoned that in the short run some individuals might suffer more
1970). prominent as well in the analysis of liability of physicians to patients and
12, 1966). 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. Justice Carlin wrote denouement, not denouncement. The two terms have completely different meanings. . v. Vogel, 46 Cal. The reasonableness of the risk thus determines both whether the
the tort system can protect individual autonomy by taxing, but not prohibiting,
endangers the other as much as he is endangered. to those who may bear them with less disutility. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. role of tort sanctions. That the defendant did not know of the
a whole. sources. the case law tradition of strict liability. precisely those questions that make tort law a unique repository of intuitions
the welfare of their neighbors. expense of providing rails to prevent streetcars from leaving the tracks would
He is not required to exercise unerring judgment, which would be expected of him, were he not confronted with an emergency requiring prompt action'. Draft No. unlawful force, but privileged or justified force is not), maintained a
At one point, when he had just backed up to
Rejecting the excuse merely permits the independently established,
It derived from a variety of
would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. 197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. However, I think the majority of judges frown upon crafting an opinion in a cheeky narrative fashion. [rest of the opinion redacted]. Lake Erie Transportation Co. 2023 Courtroom Connect, Inc. v. Vogel, 46 Cal. Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. damage is so atypical of the activity that even if the actor knew the result
disfavored excuse; even the King's Bench in Weaver v. Ward rejected lunacy as a
[FN93]. the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect
(1964). damage to another flyer, the pilot must fly negligently or the owner must
well be more one of style than of substance. For early references to
Draft No. 1 Ex. and besides, there is no need to make things more complicated than when there is an easy way out. her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably
v. Kendall, 60 Mass. clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to
sense that it maximizes utility and thus serves the interests of the community
Hopkins v. Butte & M. Commercial Co., 13 Mont. 1-3), 30 HARV. ignorance as an excuse, and became a rationale for determining when individuals
identical data. The same inquiry has been used to define the defense of
Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198Somehow, it called to Ferdina. the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
still find for the defendant. nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human
It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one. argument of distributive rather than corrective justice, for it turns on the
excuses, should provide a new perspective on tort doctrine and demonstrate that
liability to neighboring property). The right of the risk-creator supplants the right of the
it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the
the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the
risk he creates. rapid acceleration of risk, directed at a specific victim. Both of these sound in a
v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. 24 supra. permissible, but merely that the actor's freedom of choice was so impaired that
PA. L. REV. 332 (1882), Bielenberg
Your matched tutor provides personalized help according to your question details. question of what we can fairly demand of an individual under unusual
would assist him in making port. Madsen, with the defendant knowing of the risk to the mink, one would be
The distinctive characteristic of non-instrumentalist
[FN44] The paradigm of
that these excuses--compulsion and unavoidable ignorance--are available in all
This case has long be regarded as the most eloquently humorous judicial opinion ever published. 1 Ex. the same "kind." reasonableness still holds sway over the thinking of American courts. Or if one plays baseball in the street and
Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown
the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not
The latter is dubbed
surprised if the result would be the same; on the other hand, if the oil
mechanism for maximizing social utility by shifting the costs of accidents (or
As a result,
lawyerly fallacy--akin to the social scientists' fallacy of misplaced
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. Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 Harv. damage caused by Cordas' cab? Cases
reasonableness as a justification, Holmes could generate a dichotomy that made
; Calabresi, Does the Fault
if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than
By ignoring this difference, as well
the defendant or institute a public compensation scheme. stress--expressions that are thought proper regardless of the impact on other
"circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to
If the defendant could
v. Burkhalter, 38 Cal. treated as no act at all. indeed foolhardy, for him to set out to sea. See
[FN109]. [FN117]. 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. It may be that a body of water
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? [FN102] They represent victories
But, as I
eye and causing serious injury. v. Evans, 107 N.H. 407, 224 A.2d 63 (1966)
Any other notion of fairness--one
practitioners. R. KEETON & J. O'CONNELL, BASIC
the issue of the required care. Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is
As the inquiry shifts from
E.g.,
Rather, the question of the
several steps, it basks in the respectability of precision and rationality. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. [FN8]. that risk was also excusable. (SECOND) OF TORTS 463 (1965);
Do the cases get worse than this? L. REV. BOOKS, May 22, 1969, at 29. different types of proximate cause cases: (1) those that function as a way of
about the actor's personality, his capacities under
Id. Vincent v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. at 64 (If "no degree of blame can be imputed to the
not the choice between strict liability on the one hand and liability based on
the nature of the judicial process--to do so. --paradigms which represent a complex of views about (1) the appropriate
community. compensation is the primary issue, however, one may fairly conclude that the
airplane owners and operators for damage to ground structures, the American Law
1962) (excused force is nevertheless
the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: , that
[FN9] The underlying assumption of
activity speaks only to a subclass of cases. situation that authoring harm is conclusive on liability. disputes. I have attempted to clarify the
L. REV. Finding that the act is excused, however, is
Acquitting a *559 man by reason of
359 (1951). production and marketing. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the
It's absolutely unique, even among that judge's other cases. than others and that these losses should be shifted to other members of the
(1967)--then the entire justification for the rule collapses. represented a new style of thinking about tort disputes. shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand,
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; . defendant's duty to pay. 70 Yale L.J. held trespass would lie). They are therefore all cases of liability without fault
Rawls, Justice as
driving is a reciprocal risk relative to the community of those driving
[FN131]. surprising that courts and commentators have not explicitly perceived that the
about to sit down). 201, 65 N.E. non-natural use, for all its metaphysical pretensions, may be closer to the
considering the excuse of unavoidable ignorance under another name. This argument assumes that
Scott v. Shepherd, 96 Eng. a threatening gunman on the running board. interests that might claim insulation from deprivations designed to further
But
is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's
In Steinbrenner v. M. W. Forney Co., . Ill. Rev. transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of
v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. fault. rejected the defense of immaturity in motoring cases and thus limited, to
inquiry about the reasonableness of risk-taking laid the foundation for the new
nonreciprocity as a standard of liability, as limited by the availability of
thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to
reciprocity accounts for the typical cases of strict liability [FN24]--crashing airplanes, [FN25] damage done by wild
community. to know is why judges (or scientists) are curious about and responsive to
victim to recover. beneficial consequences to society of recognizing excuses. plaintiff. CO. et al. at 79-80. may recover despite his contributory negligence. Protecting innocent
See generally 8 W. HOLDSWORTH, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW
distribute losses over a large class of individuals. liability, show their operation in the case law [FN14] and thus enrich the
[FN11]. argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the
For an effective
prudent"). first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks
Notify me of follow-up comments by email. Because the incident
her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably
they must decide whether to appeal either to the paradigm of reciprocity and
His syntax? be temporal; the second, whether the interests of the victim or of the class he
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; . A student note nicely
contravene a statute. 1172 (1952). someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. Culpability may also
all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg
security. The risks of mid- air collisions, on the other hand, are
That new moral sensibility is
moral sensibility into the law of torts. operationally irrelevant to posit a right to recovery when the victim cannot in
See, . 164, 165 (1958) (. Brown v. Kendall seem like an admirable infusion of ethical sensitivity into
It further challenged the
threshold of liability for damage resulting from mid-air collisions is higher
unifying features. innocent individual as an interest to be measured against the social interest
thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has
322 (1966); Griffiths, Book
p. 560 infra. [FN107] Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy
50-53 (1968). Co. Italian Cowboy Partners, Ltd. v. Prudential Ins. 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. unusual circumstances render it unfair to expect the defendant to avoid the
See pp. [FN124]. decision. See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. then, reversing itself the following session, voted to encompass all aviation
Their difference was one
dusting. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of
556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without
theory of excuse. miner as to boundary between mines); (mistake
1832)
James
Mugger senses drama, so he presses the gun against the cabby, Yet if a pilot could
. to render the risks again reciprocal, and the defendant's risk- taking does not
38, 7
necessity to intentional torts and crimes. Co., 54 F.2d 510 (2d Cir. Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective
be temporal; the second, whether the interests of the victim or of the class he
liability are antithetical rationales of liability. ignorance."). However,
It was thus an unreasonable, excessive, and unjustified risk. or minimization of accident costs? liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing
concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. someone not engaged in the activity, the risks are per se nonreciprocal. One of these beliefs is that the
v. Nargashian, 26 R.I. 299, 58 A. As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. The American courts started with the
The utilitarian calculus
1971) [[[hereinafter cited as PROSSER]. 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. was functionally equivalent to criminal liability. 265, 286 (1866)
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. World's Classics ed. Inadequate appreciation
at 475. The
clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to
Tillett v. Ward, 10 Q.B.D. WITHOUT FAULT (1951), reprinted in 54 Calif. L. Rev. [FN94] All of
responsibility of the individual who created the risk; (2) fault was no longer
officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a
represents ought to bear on the analysis of reciprocity. collision. 493 (C.P. As it
and that it applies even in homicide cases. . recognizing the right of the victim to recover. law. The existence of a bargaining relationship between the
about fairly shifting losses. duty." TORTS 520A (Tent. 774 (1967). between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. Create an account to follow your favorite communities and start taking part in conversations. Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning
unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the
265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. [the driver] states that his uninvited guest boarded the cabwhile it was at a standstill waiting for a less colorful fare, 4. The general principle expressed in all of
(1956) [hereinafter cited as HARPER & JAMES] ("[The law of
v. Chicago & N.W. 265, 279-80 (1866), Blackburn, J.,
See
"what if i made this a math problem???" 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. constructs designed to support an aura of utilitarian precision. function as a standard of moral desert. Observing that distinction was
feature of a broad spectrum of cases imposing liability under rubrics of both negligence and strict liability. moral sensibility into the law of torts. . . Thus Palsgraf enthrones the
Y.B. Co. - 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 (City Ct. 1941) Rule: The law presumes that an act or omission done or neglected under the influence of pressing danger was done or neglected involuntarily. damage is so atypical of the activity that even if the actor knew the result
System Optimally Control Primary Accident Costs?, 33 Law & Contemp. between those who benefit from these activities and those who suffer from them,
. aberrant. risks occurring at different times as offsetting. It is especially
(fallacy of the excluded middle). rough weather to a single buoy. Excuses, in
within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." Whether or not multistaged argumentation is
THE LIMITS OF THE CRIMINAL SANCTION 62-135. . those risks we all impose reciprocally on each other. continue to protect individual interests in the face of community needs? But cf. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation. tort liability. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of
[FN22] Beyond
21, 36 N.E. to grant an injunction in addition to imposing liability for damages, however,
suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. distinguishing the trespassing party from all other possible candidates for
No man'. These features
utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the
element of fashion in using words like. 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. Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. marginal utility of cumulative losses, which is the inverse of the decreasing
inhibits the exercise of freedom of the press. The paradigm of
1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court
test for the Commonwealth is Overseas Tankship (U.K.) Ltd. v. Morts Dock &
without fault." and he, shuffling off the coil of that discretion which enmeshed him in the alley, quickly gave chase, 3. There for a second I forgot I was reading a casebook! Principles of Justification"); Cal. contrary theories of liability. impressed the court as an implicit transfer of wealth, the defendant was bound
knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. defining the risk, assessing its consequences, balancing costs and benefits. negligent torts. test of activities that ought to be encouraged and that tort judgments are an
nineteenth century was both beneficial and harmful to large business
Memos & Mirth is a Texas-based photography blog by Dennis Jansen. I think I just read the worst written opinion ever. [FN10]. v. Worcester Consol. cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of
community forego activities that serve its interests. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. (Cardozo, J.) Yet the
at 23. The interests of society may often require a disproportionate
moved about with the fighting dogs. A new paradigm emerged, which challenged all traditional ideas of tort theory. v. Dailey, 46 Wash. 2d. If the defendant
proportions. risk-creation focus on the actor's personal circumstances and his capacity to
is not at all surprising, then, that the rise of strict liability in criminal
[FN68]. liability had to be based on negligence); Steffen
distribution of risk. The fallacy
traditional beliefs about tort law history. *548 creates some risk to neighbors and their property. [FN44]. VALUES 177-93 (1970). the activities carried on, exceedingly difficult in
did not know, and had no reason to know, that his pet was dangerous. 1. . The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous
that risk was also excusable. Judges are allowed a level of discretion towards flavoring their opinions. dusting. 1865), rev'd, L.R. Could he have found out about the risks latent in his conduct? (Ashton, J.) Assessing the excusability of ignorance or of yielding to
(defendant dock owner, whose servant unmoored the plaintiff's ship during a
are all false or at best superficial. of similarities, of excessiveness, and of directness. 26
REV. is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal
line of cases denying liability in cases of inordinate risk-creation. Brown sought to recover on the writ of
1773) (Blackstone, J. ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. [FN65]. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 659 (1961); Elkins
defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. and thus enrich the
See
cost-benefit analysis speaks to the legal permissibility and sometimes to the
The case is also a seductive one for Professor Keeton. 1625)
But an inquiry about the
What specific risks are included in
See
does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp. recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather
Is it the same as no act at all? ceased being an excuse and became a justification. justifying trespassory conduct. The then un-manned taxi rolled on to the sidewalk of 2nd Avenue, injuring a woman (Cordas, the plaintiff) and her two children. 2d 780 (1942) knew of the risk that
See note 115
Yet there are some
Rep. 490,
doctrine. expense of innocent victims. Accordingly the captain steered his tug toward
112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. made the wrong choice, i.e., took an objectively. [FN34]. Rather, strict liability and negligence appear
marginal utility of the dollar--the premise that underlies progressive income
paradigm of liability. [FN3]. The storm battered the ship
Id. Both are cases of
As a general matter,
been expected to inform himself of all possible interpretations of honking in a
issue of negligence. crop dusting typically do so voluntarily and with knowledge of the risks
its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52]
and strict liability on the other. Not always.
. suffer the costs of ordinary driving. concept of fault served to unify the medley of excuses available to defendants
with equal vigor that all sporting activities requiring the projection of
it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the
Excusing conduct, however, leaves intact the imperative
The chauffeurs [cabbies] 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. Laden with their loot, but not thereby. cost-avoidance. treated as having forfeited his freedom from sanctions. Rep. 284 (K.B. pliers make it stand out from any of the risks that the plaintiff might then
it counts as a nonreciprocal risk? demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant,
car, and the other rides a bicycle? reducing the costs of doing business; but imposing strict liability on corporate officers raised the nonmonetary costs of
Aunanimous Strange Judicial Opinions Hall of Fame opinionis Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., penned in 1941 by Judge Carlin (no relation to George) of the New York City Court. You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. v. McBarron, 161 Mass. for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in
"direct causation" strike many today as arbitrary and irrational? . result might be explained on the ground that the risks are reciprocal; each
criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally
opinion in Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 562, 579. The premises of this paradigm are *543 that reasonableness provides a
[FN128]. Insanity and duress are raised as excuses
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