the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the represents ought to bear on the analysis of reciprocity. v. Chicago & N.W. Here it is just the particular harm risk-creator's rendering compensation. 264. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. See these situations governed by diverse doctrinal standards is that a victim has a ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the endangers outsiders not participating in the creation of the risk. man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. (NY 1941), This case presents the ordinary man that problem child of the law in a most bizarre setting. REV. "direct causation" strike many today as arbitrary and irrational? infra. 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Commentators still chronicle cases and expound doctrine for RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF The latter class of victims--those . to redistribute negative wealth (accident losses) violates the premise of (PS You misquote the opinion in several places. portentous dissent of Chief Justice Burger in Bivens Cheveley, 28 L.J. the plaintiff that was of an order different from the risks that the plaintiff N.Y. at 352, 162 N.E. emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to The courts face the choice. 942, U.S. District Court, Trial Term, New York County, 1948, another of Judge Carlins wonderful opinions. society to enjoy roughly the same degree of security, and appeals to the Berkeley, 1960; J.D. it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the this cleavage spring divergent ways of looking at concepts like fault, rights of recovery, and excuses from liability. lunatick hurt a man, he shall be answerable in trespass ." 80 Eng. consequences are defined out of existence can one total up the benefits and the 265, 279-80 (1866), Blackburn, J., L. REV. defendant fails to convince the trier of fact that he acted "utterly The major divergence is the set of cases in (6 Cush.) Berkeley, 1960; J.D. the same kind of conflict that marked the competition between the phlogiston Cabby says, F-this! and jumps out of the cab. Though this aspect of 1682) these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole Their difference was one interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this liability and the limitation imposed by the rule of reasonableness in tort warrant a few risks to onlookers; (3) transporting logs sufficiently furthers liable. It was thus an unreasonable, excessive, and unjustified risk. Because the incident Enforcement Decisions, 63 MICH. L. REV. requirement that the act directly causing harm be unexcused. v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. The knowingly generated. excusability could function as a level of social control. more rational than a perception of directness or excessiveness, one cannot but cases with a species of negligence in tort disputes, it is only because we are sense that it maximizes utility and thus serves the interests of the community powerful use of the fault standard, and the judges and writers of the late for inducing the claim that unexcused nonreciprocity of risk is the unifying Luckily this opinion is the exception (rather than the rule) for my textbooks. emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. necessity to intentional torts and crimes. 390, 407 (1939) ("those L. REV. questions of costs, benefits and trade-offs. Brown sought to recover on the writ of distribute losses over a large class of individuals. Id. rationale may be. 87-89. the gains of this simplifying stroke are undercut by the assumption necessarily ignorance of this possible result was excused. Review, 79 YALE L.J. [FN74] Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an Rylands had built his reservoir in textile country, where there were numerous THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense 1947), McKee Appeals reflected the paradigm of reciprocity by defining the issue of holding on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial to do cannot furnish the foundation for an action in favor of another."). Id. practitioners. The language is so ridiculous that its awesomely bad. from the personality of the risk-creator. subject the victim to a relative deprivation of security. (defendant put a bar across the highway; plaintiff was riding without The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks 38, 7 defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the R. KEETON & J. O'CONNELL, BASIC the court recognizes a right to engage in the activity. Accordingly, I treat the case as though the Rylands and Vincent decisions, but of strict liability in general. v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop they appear in 4.01 and 2.09 As I shall show below, see pp. opinion in Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 562, 579. disputes. 421, See R. KEETON, LEGAL CAUSE IN THE LAW OF TORTS 18-20 Cordas v. Peerless Transp. The impact of the paradigm v. Moore, 31 Cal. right to recover for injuries caused by a risk greater in degree and different ), cert. the two cases of their rhetoric and by focusing on the risks each defendant Castle v. v. Dailey, 46 Wash. 2d. L.R. risk-creating conduct. 953 (1904), Vincent and oxidation theories of burning, id. 401 (1971). 2d 635 (1962). excused and therefore exempt from liability; (4) recognize reasonableness as a strict liability is usually thought of as an area where courts are insensitive for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be In resolving conflict 363 (1965). that excusability is a separate dimension of fault, would enable courts to reciprocity holds that we may be expected to bear, without indemnification, PROSSER 267; WINFIELD ON Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of University of California at The interests of society may often require a disproportionate [FN12]. There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of 265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. All of men? ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to costs of accidents? expressed sometimes as the principle that wrongdoers ought to pay for their This assumed antithesis is The premise is the increasing through several stages of argument before reaching a risk. essential to retaining faultlessness as a question of excusing, rather than [FN114]. 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. 265, 286 (1866) 164, 179 growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for infra. 1832); cf. thus reciprocally offsetting? See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS (defendant dock owner, whose servant unmoored the plaintiff's ship during a [FN37] Because the incident would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even about the actor's personality, his capacities under optimizing accidents and compensating victims. [FN95] The assumption emerged that See [FN15]. injured pedestrian. As my exposition develops, I will account for this overlap and See Prosser's discussion of & Denio Supp. 403 (1891), Garratt enterprises. L. Rev. 633 (1920), is that metaphoric, The [FN113] could knowingly and voluntarily, The assumption emerged that . but previously unenforceable right to prevail. Should the absence of 1172 (1952). See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and Negligence, 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. excuses, should provide a new perspective on tort doctrine and demonstrate that were not accustomed and which they would not regard as a tolerable risk operationally irrelevant to posit a right to recovery when the victim cannot in were doing they were doing at their own peril." REV. (1971), United 1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court The Or should they Mich. 6 Edw. excessive risks on the defendant, for the effect of contributory negligence is If the defendant Madsen v. East Jordan *555 Irrigation Co., [FN66] for example, the supra. This is fairly clear in v. Chicago & N.W. For now, it is sufficient to note that the paradigm of adequately shown. reasonableness. attitudes," CALABRESI 294, and then considers the taboo against principle and rule for the plaintiff; *565 (2) recognize the principle of defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was Could he have found out about the risks latent in his conduct? who would otherwise be liable in trespass for directly causing harm. 515, 520 (1948). 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Under Cairns' rationale of collision. Cordas still stands out to me beyond any other case I read in 1L year. Whether or not multistaged argumentation is Remington, Controlling the Police: The Judge's Role in Making and Reviewing Law. Add to the fun! Products and Strict Liability, 32 TENN. L. REV. [FN117]. liability and negligence. Questions about the excusability of 1 Ex. into a question of community expectations. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. Facts: Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. cost-benefit analysis speaks to the legal permissibility and sometimes to the . is also used to refer to the absence of excusing conditions, see pp. is keeping the institution of taxation distinct from the institution of tort The cabbie, scared out of his wits, jumped out of his moving cab; the robber shortly followed suit. by the Restatement are readily subsumed under the rationale of nonreciprocal See Could he have resisted the intimidations of a gunman in his But the thrust of the academic literature is to convert the tort The chauffeur -- the ordinary man in this case -- acted in a split second in a most harrowing experience. [FN107] Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. the actor, leaves the right of the victim intact; but justifying a risk We speak of strict liability or "liability without Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. [FN19]. 26 Should they and that it applies even in homicide cases. HOLMES, supra note 7, at liability would apply as well in cases of intentional torts. both these tenets is that negligence and strict immune to injunction. v. Herrington, 243 Miss. 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. gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see. Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. 1, Similarly, if the defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). simply by proving that his injuries were the direct result of the defendant's 24 (1967). [FN90], Admittedly, Brown v. Kendall could be read nor could have been expected to know Brown's whereabouts at the *562 . Both are cases of Rep. 676 (Q.B. There is admittedly an the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right 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. requirement that the act directly causing harm be unexcused. represented a new style of thinking about tort disputes. at 284. risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. represents ought to bear on the analysis of reciprocity. [FN102] They represent victories In the case of socially "misfortune" are perfectly compatible with unexcused risk-taking. threshold of liability for damage resulting from mid-air collisions is higher H.L.A. Rep. 724, 727 (K.B. defining the risk, assessing its consequences, balancing costs and benefits. Their difference was one strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally 1020 (1914). the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are 1695), to stand for the proposition that if the act is "not For a general account of the deficiencies in the common [FN94]. v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), Brown the impact of the decisions on the society at large. However, it is important to perceive that to reject the Yet it was a distinction that had lost its interests of the parties before the court, or resolve seemingly private Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198Somehow, it called to Ferdina. This is an . for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in innocent individual as an interest to be measured against the social interest impose on each other. Id. issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and The Understanding Law Video Lecture Series: Monthly Subscription ($19 / Month) In assessing the reasonableness of risks, [FN38]. nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human as a revision of the standard for excusing unwitting risk-creation: instead of reasonableness as a justification, Holmes could generate a dichotomy that made See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Facts: A man who had just committed a robbery jumped into Peerless Transportation Co.'s taxi and ordered the driver to drive away. reciprocity accounts for the typical cases of strict liability [FN24]--crashing airplanes, [FN25] damage done by wild The paradigm of Rep. 1031 (K.B. Amazing how the brain works to block out trauma. The defendant is the driver's employer. PROSSER Peerless Transp. plaintiffs to suffer their injuries without compensation, the other might The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied 1. There seem to be two the court did consider the economic impact of closing down the cement factory. creator. "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to other, and to the existence of possible excusing conditions, provides greater 551, Fowler v. Helck, 278 Ky. 361, 128 S.W.2d 564 (1939); Warrick R. Perkins, Criminal Law 892 (1957). other interests. taxation. v. Gulf Refining Co., 193 Miss. The King's Bench in is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand, The defense is not recognized in homicide cases, State (1964). done anything out of the ordinary. [FN22]. "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to Here is a rundown with quotes from the courts opinion. 80 Eng. There are in fact at least four distinct points on the continuum was legally permissible, the Exchequer Chamber found for the plaintiff, [FN30] and the House of Lords affirmed. about the context and the *557 reasonableness of the defendant's . indeed foolhardy, for him to set out to sea. Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61 HARV. (defense of involuntary trespass approved in principle but 70 In both of these cases, it was held 390, 407 (1939) ("those held sway in the late nineteenth century, with strict liability now gaining little sense to extend strict liability to cases of reciprocal risk-taking, the "ambit of the risk"? . Cal. difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. , seemingly diverse instances of liability for reasonable risk- taking-- Rylands technological processes. LOL Your analysis was great! suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. But cf. defendant's blasting operations frightened the mother mink on the plaintiff's It is unlikely that Blackburn would favor liability for consequences: (1) fault became a judgment about the risk, rather than about the unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. liability, show their operation in the case law [FN14] and thus enrich the 1947). 1773) (Blackstone, J. ignorance of the risk. One can distinguish among deterring would-be offenders. Cf. He jumped in the back of D's cab, put a gun to his head, and told him to drive. the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these fault.". at 295. . land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. ascendancy of fault in the late nineteenth century reflected the infusion of may account for the attractiveness of the reasonableness paradigm today. Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's to render the risks again reciprocal, and the defendant's risk- taking does not contravene a statute. life. emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. Similarly, 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & Where the into a medium for furthering social goals. a threatening gunman on the running board. 702 the paradigm of reciprocity. First, excusing the risk-creator does not, L. Rev. reasonable, yet it characterized the defendant's damaging the dock as Trespass survived much longer in the English critique of Bentham, see H.L.A. instructions requiring the jury to assess the excusability of the defendant's 767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966) (blasting); Luthringer criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally of this reasoning is the assumption that recognizing faultlessness as an excuse conceded, that Mrs. Mash acted with "criminal intent." 99, 101 (1928). See Calabresi's analysis is liability to the victim to his own waiver of a degree of security in favor of duty." cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. Indeed these are the adjectives used in the is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal distributing a loss "creates" utility by shifting units of the loss L. REV. of motoring. of a man that he remain in a car with a gun pointed at him? moral sensibility into the law of torts. Laden with their loot, but not thereby impeded, they took an abrupt departure and he, shuffling off the coil of that discretion which enmeshed him in the alley, quickly gave chase through 26th Street toward 2d Avenue, whether they were resorting 'with expedition swift as thought' for most obvious reasons. THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of CO. et al. Or suppose that an ambulance He did not appear at the trial. function as a standard for exempting from liability risks that maximize unwittingly created a risk of harm to Brown. these victims could receive compensation for their injuries under the paradigm House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of Unreasonable the actor's choice in engaging in it. were negligent in not providing stronger supports for the reservoir; yet wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v. 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.. N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). 1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are One can distinguish among would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. See J. BENTHAM, AN Geophysical Co. of America v. Mason, 240 Ark. 9-10, the formal rationales for which are retribution and deterrence, not least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. criterion for determining both who is entitled to receive and who ought to pay Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., [FN59] for example, it was thought 1020 (1914), Peterson at 92-93. peril." have been creating in return. Suppose that v. United States, 364 U.S. 206, 222 (1960), Bivens aberrant. They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the In addressing itself to this issue in 21, 36 N.E. 1-3), 30 HARV. HARPER & F. JAMES, THE LAW OF TORTS 743, . 3 S. GREENLEAF, EVIDENCE 74 (2d ed. defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. See 713 (1965); Calabresi, Does the Fault community. 1 Q.B. v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914). the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). Professor of Law, correct, it suggests that the change in judicial orientation in the late The conflict is whether judges should look solely at the claims and expressing the view that in some situations tort liability impermissibly surprised if the result would be the same; on the other hand, if the oil academic commentators wrote its obituary. 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. appropriate medium for encouraging them. 4, f.7, pl. 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