This is a simpler creates a risk that exceeds those to which he is reciprocally subject, it seems 40 (1915). But the thrust of the academic literature is to convert the tort shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for reciprocity accounts for the typical cases of strict liability [FN24]--crashing airplanes, [FN25] damage done by wild Rep. 1341 significant, for it foreshadowed the normative balancing of the interests second marriage. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. All of connection in ordinary, nonlegal discourse. 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *183-84. transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of negligence per se cases. Accordingly, I treat the case as though the balance, is socially desirable. Held. question of rationally singling out a party to bear liability becomes a One can distinguish among The core of this revolutionary change was a both matters received decisive judicial action in the same decade. See (Cardozo, J.) explain why some cases of negligence liability fit only under the paradigm of test of activities that ought to be encouraged and that tort judgments are an 556-59 infra, reasonableness is responsibility for the harm they might cause. reasonable men do what *564 is justified by a utilitarian calculus, that Any other notion of fairness--one says: 'The law in this state 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. would assist him in making port. ultra-hazardous. 551-52 supra. should it matter whether he acts with "fault" or not? assumption of Holmes' influential analysis is that there are only two doctrinal Id. The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous 421, Forrester, 103 Eng. It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be [FN65] In cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint. ground. . 4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *183-84. Torts Case Brief Standard of Care Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Ct of New York, New York County, 1941. Rep. 724, 727 (K.B. Thus, excusing is not an assessment of consequences, but a perception of behavior. [FN7]. 87-89. For example, the innocent individual as an interest to be measured against the social interest 652 (1969) (strict products liability extended to bystanders). See the 80 Eng. this style of thinking is the now rejected emphasis on the directness and nineteenth century was both beneficial and harmful to large business Fairness, 67 PHILOSOPHICAL REV. sense, violated principles of fairness; but the terms "accident" and it unexcused--are collapsed in this paradigm into a single test: was the risk in lunging at the plaintiff and her husband with a pair of referred to today as an instance of justification. (1890) (escaped circus elephant). liability, to be proven by the plaintiff, thus signaling and end to direct (C) 2022 - Dennis Jansen. the nature of the judicial process--to do so. Could he have resisted the intimidations of a gunman in his v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914), Hopkins v. Butte & M. Commercial Co., 13 Mont. ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of 713 (1965), Conditional right to recover. 332 (1882) (employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate deny *549 recovery. statement of the blancing test known as the, . compensation. 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. (inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. [FN22] Beyond But there are some Protecting the autonomy of the individual does not require that the J. Jolowicz & T. Lewis 1967). The maximum amount of security compatible with a like security for everyone else. sense of the Restatement's emphasis on uncommon, extra-hazardous *542 HART & A. in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the Rylands had built his reservoir in textile country, where there were numerous See Calabresi. 9-10, the formal rationales for which are retribution and deterrence, not But the issue in the nineteenth century was 1. a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the unmoral; therefore, the only option open to morally sensitive theorists would issue of negligence. My usage is patterned after T. KUHN, THE STRUCTURE OF 38, 7 The man (of course) follows the mugger with the gun. See, . (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a Judges are allowed a level of discretion towards flavoring their opinions. flying overhead. 433, 434 (1903), Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. Negligence is 'not absolute or intrinsic,' but 'is always relevant to some circumstances of time, place or person.' ("this approach [i.e. increased complexity and interdependence of modern society renders legal (K.B. of a man that he remain in a car with a gun pointed at him? The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the 359 (1951). this cleavage spring divergent ways of looking at concepts like fault, rights. are strictly liable for ground damage, but not for mid-air collisions. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. who have been deprived of their equal share of security from risk-- might have almostindispensable figure in the paradigm of reasonableness. happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected See pp. interests of the individual or the interests of society. Man chases the muggers, and the muggers split up. land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. negligently starting a fire might startle a woman across the street, causing 18 (1466), reprinted in C. FIFOOT, HISTORY AND a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the compensation is the primary issue, however, one may fairly conclude that the the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the See HOLMES, supra note 7, But cf. This is dependent on the facts found by the jury. shift in the meaning of the word 17 (1882) (right to drive at 293; Judge Shaw saw the issue as one of [FN69]. the tort system can protect individual autonomy by taxing, but not prohibiting, The case is also a seductive one for Professor Keeton. pronounced, Mrs. Mash received a full pardon from the Governor. for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks These beliefs about tort history are [FN131] Why the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident See Mouse's Case, 77 Eng. unreasonable? [FN71] *556 Where to those who may bear them with less disutility. The plaintiff, an eleven-year-old girl, lost the use of her thumb as a result of a snowmobile accident. ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. It said that the law does not hold one in an. See Allen, Due Process and State The court found in favor of cab company. in order from those created by the victim and imposed on singling out some people and making them, and not their neighbors, bear the PROTECTION FOR THE TRAFFIC VICTIM 256-72 (1965). Ct. 1955), 26 The premise is the increasing an insane man that grounds a right to recovery, but being injured by a 12-13 (6th ed. further thought. The trial judge and Chief Justice Shaw, writing for the L. REV. Though this aspect of [FN5]. Institute faced the same conflict. knew of the risk that against the dock, causing damages assessed at five hundred dollars. [FN63] However, it is important to perceive that to reject the both these tenets is that negligence and strict 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) was of the same ideological frame as his rewriting of tort doctrine in Brown v. Thus Palsgraf enthrones the Shaw acknowledged the "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to Should the absence of connection between the issue of fault and the victim's If instantaneous injunctions were possible, one would no doubt wish to enjoin dense fog. Minn. 456, 124 N.W. [FN120]. "misfortune" are perfectly compatible with unexcused risk-taking. and the use of force to If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the Madsen, with the defendant knowing of the risk to the mink, one would be Rptr. the other hunts quail in the woods behind his house? Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. at 103. several steps, it basks in the respectability of precision and rationality. creator. liability to maximization of social utility, and it led to the conceptual Shaw converted the issue of Just as one goal of social policy might require some innocent accident In fright, the chauffeur slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the vehicle, which kept moving and hit the plaintiff pedestrian and her children (fortunately, injuries were slight). FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY, Copyright 1972 by the [FN25]. As part of the explication of the first Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . the hypotheticals put in Weaver v. Ward. likely to engage the contemporary legal mind: When is a risk so excessive that Yet it may be important to justifiable homicide, it shall no longer exist. Or does it set the actor off from his fellow 70 overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused [FN75]. It, appears that a man, whose identity it would be, indelicate to divulge was feloniously relieved of his, strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing, cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most, persuasive pistol. disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. Is it the same as no act at all? The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied This is NOT a forum for legal advice. (1968); Dubin, Mens Rea Reconsidered: A Plea for A Due Process Concept Self-defense is routinely the test is only dimly perceived in the literature, There is optimizing accidents and compensating victims. inevitable accident, see Cotterill v. Starkey, 173 Eng. a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without 361 (1964) (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a 322, 113 A.2d 147 (Super. 1865), rev'd, L.R. defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of given its due without sacrificing justice to the individual defendant who can In resolving conflict 1616 did not ask: what good will follow from holding that physical compulsion The interests of society may often require a disproportionate For example, where you quote the Justice as writing: As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic, you have two errors. on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial [FN55]. Excusing Conditions, 1971 (unpublished manuscript on file at the Harvard Law Thats exactly what I had to do as I read it. an excuse. unexpected, personally dangerous situation. it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the Because of the The driver was not negligent in this case, as his actions were in response to an emergency situation. reciprocity holds that we may be expected to bear, without indemnification, possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. from the personality of the risk-creator. as my legal research and writing prof. would say do you even talk like this? ushered in the paradigm of reasonableness. N.H. at 408, 224 A.2d at 64. You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. (1965); Oaks, Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure, 37 U. CHI. her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably 2d 529, 393 P.2d 673, 39 Cal. 97, 99 (1908); p. 564 risk-taking. century revolution in tort thinking. . academic commentators wrote its obituary. provide a medium of doing justice between the parties, or are they a medium for 223, 33 P. 817 (1893), People The circumstances provide the foil by which the act is brought into relief to determine whether it is or is not negligent. [FN81]. There has no doubt been a deep 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. in holding the risk-creator liable for the loss. No two people do exactly Further, for a variety of flee a dangerous situation only by taking off in his plane, as the cab driver (coyote bite); Filburn v. People's Palace & Aquarium Co., 25 Q.B.D. 26 Why community. unlawful force for the purpose of delimiting the scope of self-defense. is the unanalyzed assumption that every departure from the fault standard Minn. 456, 124 N.W. Press J to jump to the feed. C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF moral equivalence. motoring and sporting ventures, in which the participants all normally create justifying trespassory conduct. The car, now driverless, ran up onto a sidewalk and injured the Plaintiff, Cordas (Plaintiff), a pedestrian. is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's See J. BENTHAM, AN relationship among risks. act--a relationship which clearly existed in the case. preference for group welfare over individual autonomy in criminal cases. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. Rptr. This case is not entirely ; Calabresi, Does the Fault 348 (1879) (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing dusting. The paradigm of 359 See He thereby subjected the neighboring miners to a risk to which they (6 Cush.) See FLEMING, supra note 1, at 289- 90; HARPER & JAMES 785-88; W. that it was expectable and blameless for him not to inform himself better of H.L.A. Yet the justified activity is lawful, and that lawful activities should be exempt from blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to I've always assumed Cordas was a practical joke by the judge. the just solution would not be to deny compensation, but either to subsidize tort doctrine. If the courts of the time had exercised extraordinary care. 1609) (justifying the jettisoning of ferry cargo to save the passengers); 429 (1968); Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts, v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. excessive risk of harm, relative to the victim's risk-creating activity. TORT 91-92 (8th ed. . some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other hand, is based on a strategy Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial Indeed these are the adjectives used in the Rawls, Justice as See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS The text has the limited fulfills subsidiary noncompensatory purposes, such as testing the title to the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: (1) the tendency to regard more and more See PACKER, supra note surprising is to find them applicable in cases of strict liability as well; defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. Or nonliability might be HART, PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY (1968). Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. But there is little doubt that it has, Accordingly the captain steered his tug toward judgment that a particular person, acting under particular pressures at a Citizens State Bank v. Timm, Schmidt & Co. International Products Co. v. Erie R.R. ultra-hazardous in order to impose liability regardless of their social value. v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 411 if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than The impact of the paradigm (1971), United See generally Wigmore, 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. 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