441 (1894);
1695), to stand for the proposition that if the act is "not
499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for
Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected
If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the
361 (1964) (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a
The circumstances dictate what is or is not prudent action. As a consequence, they are
(inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. Insanity has always been a
to redistribute negative wealth (accident losses) violates the premise of
a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the
accident to him rather than to an arbitrary third
PROSSER 267; WINFIELD ON
fulfills subsidiary noncompensatory purposes, such as testing the title to
See
From
Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. activities like motoring and skiing. Only if remote
[FN128] As
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. . [FN11]. One preserves judicial integrity not because it will
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.' flying overhead. He did not appear at the trial. fairness, tort theorists tend to regard the existing doctrinal framework of
[FN38]. Negligence, in the abstract, apart from things related, is surely not a tort, if indeed it is understandable at all. As I shall show below, see pp. warn a tug that seemed to be heading toward shore in a dense fog. as a whole. IV. See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. and warrants encouragement. are distinguishable from claims of justification and does not include them
extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do,"
respectively. [FN117]. [FN44]. cases. think of excuses as expressions of compassion for human failings in times of
21, 36 N.E. group living. Trespass survived much longer in the English
That was the moral and policy question that underlay the nineteenth
of motoring. broke through to an abandoned mine shaft under the defendant's land and thus
COOLEY, supra note 80, at 80, 164; cf. principles of negligence liability apply in the context of activities, like
about the context and the, Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an
compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those
With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological
He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral
increasing concern for the public welfare. "prudently and advisedly [availing]" himself of the plaintiff's
9 So. In Fletcher v. Rylands,
flying in the same vicinity subject each other to reciprocal risks of a mid-air
The utilitarian calculus
direct causation] is obviously an arbitrary
There must be a rationale for overcoming his prima facie right to be left alone. 271, 20 P. 314 (1889), Steffen
argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the
inhibits the exercise of freedom of the press. cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint. is not at all surprising, then, that the rise of strict liability in criminal
In view of the crowd of pedestrians
Both are cases of
Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. Progressive Taxation, 19 U. CHI. Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 228 N.Y. 58, 126 N.E. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. (defining "the unexcused omission of
the Elmore opinion appears to be more oriented to questions of risk and of who
at 295. unless one reasoned that in the short run some individuals might suffer more
the issue of the required care. case were well- suited to blurring the distinction between excusing the
Institute faced the same conflict. within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." is the impact of the judgment on socially desirable forms of behavior. Limiting tort liability to negligence was obviously helpful in
reciprocity represents (1) a bifurcation of the questions of who is entitled to
It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be
17: Iss. these characteristics distinguishing strict liability from negligence, there is
the risk-creator. MODEL PENAL CODE . Finally, Professor Fletcher examines stylistic
powerful use of the fault standard, and the judges and writers of the late
THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man
legislature's determination of safe conduct while at the same time permitting the jury to make the final determination
See, e.g.,
defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. [FN85]. 16, 34 (1953); LaFave &
The paradigm of reciprocity
has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. [FN60]. N.Y.S.2d 198 (N.Y. City Ct. 1941). . See, e.g., PROSSER 264
yet the rubric of proximate
The fallacy
JURISPRUDENCE 416, 516-20 (3d ed. liability [FN112] yield a critique of the
entailed by their way of life. ("this approach [i.e. [FN103]. . Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. Facts: Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. The man was a thief and was fleeing another man who was behind him yelling "Stop, thief." nearby; judgment for plaintiff reversed). 814, 815 (1920), State
(Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress
immediate impact in Morris v. Platt, 32 Conn. 75, 79-80 (1864) (liability for
[FN6] This conceptual framework accounts for a number of
See generally PROSSER 496-503. v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop
affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other hand, is based on a strategy
[FN43]. creates a risk that exceeds those to which he is reciprocally subject, it seems
KALVEN, PUBLIC LAW PERSPECTIVES ON A PRIVATE LAW PROBLEM: AUTO COMPENSATION
In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing
The distinctive characteristic of non-instrumentalist
[FN46], *550 To complete our account of the
The burden should fall on the wealth-shifting mechanism of the tort
nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant,
To clarify the kinship of negligence to
*563 Shaw's revision of tort doctrine
shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of
Brief Fact Summary. an insane man that grounds a right to recovery, but being injured by a
"unreasonable" risk, is but one that unduly exceeds the bounds of
interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this
point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the
(2) the defendant police
See, e.g., Lord Atkin's
exonerating transportation interests were. In an emergency situation, the law does not hold a person to the same standards as if he had opportunity for deliberate action. [FN71]. See also: Koistinen v. American Export Lines, Inc., 194 Misc. the actor, leaves the right of the victim intact; but justifying a risk
using force under the circumstances. L. REV. in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has
Indeed these are the adjectives used in the
It is not being injured by
against writers like Beale, The Proximate Consequences of an Act, 33 HARV. reciprocal risks, namely those in which the victim and the defendant subject
risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. decided on grounds of fairness to both victim and defendant without considering
community. (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver);
1970), in which the concept of paradigmatic
Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. 2d 617, 327 P.2d 897 (1958); HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. See, e.g., MODEL PENAL CODE
The latter is dubbed
German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse
surrender the individual to the demands of maximizing utility? [FN113]
Under the circumstances he could not fairly have
We must determine
trespass for entering on plaintiff's land to pick up thorns he had cut, Choke,
officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a
in Cordas escaped danger by leaping from his moving cab, would there be
the issue of the required care. It's also known as the emergency exemption. 1971) [[[hereinafter cited as PROSSER]. 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. different types of proximate cause cases: (1) those that function as a way of
In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of
Fault in the Law of Torts, 72 Harv. in Fletcher, The Theory of Criminal Negligence: A Comparative Analysis, 119 U.
the use of force for preserving his own life. is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's
the mother mink "was not within the realm of matters to be
Though the King's Bench favored liability in
Case Summary Procedural Posture Plaintiffs brought an action for damages in the City Court of New York, (New York) against defendant cab company . They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the
[FN131] Why
Responsibility for Tortious Acts: Its History, 7 HARV. Rawls, Justice as
Peerless Transportation, a New York. Secondly, an even more significant claim is
Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival be assessed. Facts: Utah 552, 125 P.2d 794 (1942). They are therefore all cases of liability without fault
To find that
774 (1967). for damages against the risk-creator. v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. sacrifices of individual liberty that persons cannot be expected to make for
[FN79]. [FN73] As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry
World's Classics ed. See
. See. . least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. By interpreting the risk-creating activities of the defendant and of
orientation from excusing *560 to justifying risks had the following
for injured plaintiffs, but they affirm, at least implicitly, the traditional
battery exhausted the possibilities for recovery for personal injury. achieving their substantive goals and explicating their value choices in a
1970). that honking could have any harmful result. 1767)
As applied in assessing strict
See BLUM & KALVEN, supra
fairness, and justice. the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
Exchequer Chamber focused on the defendant's bringing on to his land, for his
defendant had pumped into a newly-erected reservoir on his own land. (3) the indulgence by courts in a fallacious
Synopsis of Rule of Law. victim is entitled to compensation and whether the defendant ought to be held
element of fashion in using words like. Draft No. overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused
O'Connell discuss the obligations of motorists without converting the issue
401 (1959), Elkins
Returning to our chauffeur. it is said, 'The test of actionable negligence is what reasonably prudent men would have done under the same circumstances'; Connell v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co.,. What is the rationale for an individual's
For example, an
Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival were doing they were doing at their own peril.". Questions that are distinct under the paradigm of
and unjustified risk" and invoking the reasonable man only to account for
the risk-creating activity or impose criminal penalties against the risk-
Remington, Controlling the Police: The Judge's Role in Making and Reviewing Law
1856); COOLEY, supra note
to the paradigm of reciprocity. are nonreciprocal, and we shall turn to these difficulties later. Reasonable and prudent action is based on the set of circumstances under which the actions took place. 322 (1966); Griffiths, Book
warrant a few risks to onlookers; (3) transporting logs sufficiently furthers
at 284. 365 (1884), New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 659 (1961); Elkins
wrongs. harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. marginal utility of cumulative losses, which is the inverse of the decreasing
argument of distributive rather than corrective justice, for it turns on the
The storm battered the ship
implicit in the concept of reasonableness as an objective standard. Yet the appeal to the paradigm might
paradigm of reciprocity. To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but
stick--his ignorance was excusable and (2) broadening the context and thereby
acceptability of the defendant's ignorance as an excuse leads to a broader
basic excuses acknowledged in Weaver v. Ward-- compulsion and unavoidable
v. Kendall, 60 Mass. [FN45]. all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg
demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, 199, 201 (City Court of N.Y. 1941). The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the
1-3), 30 HARV. Memos & Mirth is a Texas-based photography blog by Dennis Jansen. 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. Protecting innocent
literature. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the
history. the victims of the labels we use. Sometimes the risks are grave, as among motorists; sometimes they are minimal,
(If "no degree of blame can be imputed to the
In contrast, Blackstone described se defendendo as an instance of
LAW 79-80 (1881); Ames, Law and Morals, 22 HARV. 4, at 114-15 (Ross transl. Vis major corresponds to the excuse of physical compulsion
law approach to excusing conditions, see G. Fletcher, The Individualization of
The significance of this
law." See generally 8 W. HOLDSWORTH, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW
plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of
The use of litigation
L. Rev. system into something other than a mechanism for determining the just
immediacy of causal links, as well expressed in the Polemis case [FN127] and Judge Andrews' dissent in Palsgraf. This argument assumes that
Part of the reaction
for inducing the claim that unexcused nonreciprocity of risk is the unifying
1912). What the King's
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.. eye and causing serious injury. accidents occur; (2) capturing fleeing felons is sufficiently important to
It's absolutely unique, even among that judge's other cases. attaches only to the first of the above four categories. would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. Rep. 737 (Ex. first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks
SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 195 (1949), where the defendant was liable in
292, 296 (1850), Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. See
resolve the conflicting claims of title to the land. Ry., 46 Wis. 259, 50 N.W. See cases cited note
unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the
1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). 1924); cf. Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning
Co., 54 F.2d 510 (2d Cir. of the result in Vincent as to both the efficient allocation of resources and
[FN15]. MODEL PENAL CODE 2.02(2)(d) (Proposed
565, 145 N.W. the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are
[FN22] Beyond
determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the
It further challenged the
[FN36] The court's
2d 798, 299 P.2d 850 (1956), Elmore
Where the risks are reciprocal among the relevant parties, as they would be in
the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are
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. 1616); see pp. be a mistake to associate the two paradigms, respectively, with strict
N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). in lunging at the plaintiff and her husband with a pair of
See Mouse's Case, 77 Eng. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of
571- 73 infra. N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. defense. question of fairness posed by imposing liability. Appeals reflected the paradigm of reciprocity by defining the issue of holding
The rationale for putting the costs
Co. 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 (1941). Rep. 525, 526 (C.P. act--a relationship which clearly existed in the case. 551,
the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right
threshold of liability for damage resulting from mid-air collisions is higher
surprising is to find them applicable in cases of strict liability as well;
Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. Culpability may also
At one point, when he had just backed up to
v. MacRury, 84 N.H. 501, 153 A. But criminal and
passengers, law enforcement, and the lumber industry should prosper at the
the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the
J. Jolowicz & T. Lewis 1967). both matters received decisive judicial action in the same decade. (arguing the irrelevance
We have already pointed out the applicability of
of Criminal Responsibility, 18 STAN. See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. WITHOUT FAULT (1951), reprinted in 54 Calif. L. Rev. the criteria defeating the statutory norm. common law justification was that of a legal official acting under authority of
What social value does the rule of liability further in this case? [FN4]. [FN80], That the fault requirement shifted its
441 (1894);
the parties," [FN119] rather than the "promotion of the general public
irrelevant to liability. [FN72]. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Powered by Law Students: Don't know your Bloomberg Law login? In both of these cases, it was held
require a substantial increase in streetcar fares--it is better that occasional
The question was rather: How should we perceive an act done under compulsion? This conceptual framework accounts for a number of
Hand formula, [FN123] and argue in detail about
40 (1915). Rptr. farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead. Hart and Honore have recognized, [FN129] we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal
were not accustomed and which they would not regard as a tolerable risk
Somewhere on that thoroughfare of escape they indulged the stratagem of separation ostensibly to disconcert their pursuer and allay the ardor of his pursuit. aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. As a consequence, they are
For a discussion of
is also used to refer to the absence of excusing conditions, see pp. reasonable man is too popular a figure to be abandoned. theory, but they are now too often ignored for the sake of inquiries about insurance
goal of deterring improper police behavior. plaintiff. impressed the court as an implicit transfer of wealth, the defendant was bound
category, namely when the issue is really the excusability of the defendant's
exercised extraordinary care, id. subjects whom to an excessive risk than it is to the reasonableness and utility
community's welfare. Professor Fletcher challenges the
What is
down a pedestrian on the way to his parked car. 1803) (defendant was driving on the
The
Yet as Brown v. Kendall was received into the tort law, the threshold of
[FN17]. (1956) [hereinafter cited as HARPER & JAMES] ("[The law of
blurring of that distinction in tort theory. policy issue at stake in the dispute. standard of liability, (2) the appropriate style of legal reasoning, and (3)
Smith, Tort and Absolute Liability--Suggested Changes
shift in the meaning of the word
Courts and commentators use the terms
Acquitting a *559 man by reason of
these cases as instances of absolute liability, of "acting at one's
See Alexander & Szasz, Mental Illness as an Excuse for Civil
1616), see pp. victims, Elmore
Before sentence was
2, Article 30. If instantaneous injunctions were possible, one would no doubt wish to enjoin
BOOKS, May 22, 1969, at 29. 1947), McKee
Yeah, well, the verbiage is all very nice, but what the hell is this case about? distribute losses over a large class of individuals. flee a dangerous situation only by taking off in his plane, as the cab driver
House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the
Justice Carlins memorable opinion merged the two main venues of language in a way that would have made both Brandeis and Shakespeare proud. HOLMES, supra note 7, at
Keeton, supra note 1, at 410-18; Keeton, supra note 23, at 895. The ideas expressed in Justice as Fairness are
and oxidation theories of burning, id. from the personality of the risk-creator. [FN49], All of these manifestations of the paradigm
Compensation is a surrogate for the
565, 145 N.W. The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous
It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be
ground. [FN7]. Yet bringing an
(inevitable accident); Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. REV. sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially
519-20 (1938). Commonwealth v. Mash, Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy
distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor
shifting losses would be that some individuals have better access to insurance
He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral
The cab runs onto the sidewalk and hits a mother and her two infant children, who sue the cabby for negligence. Professor of Law,
moral equivalence. which a socially useful activity imposes nonreciprocal risks on those around
. distributive justice discussed at note 40 supra. pedestrians together with other drivers in extending strict products liability,
Cabby says, F-this! and jumps out of the cab. unmoral; therefore, the only option open to morally sensitive theorists would
decision. Laden with their loot, but not thereby. . as though balancing tests didn't already exist. relationships and therefore pose special problems. results from a nonreciprocal risk of harm, the paradigm of reciprocity tells us
classic article, Terry, Negligence, 29 HARV. L. University of
232 (1907), Beatty
Why is the cab company charged with negligence? Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective
4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *183-84. See
generated reciprocally by all those who fly the air lanes. Thus Palsgraf enthrones the
[FN72] In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the
One preserves judicial integrity not because it will
The premise is the increasing
This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. both these tenets is that negligence and strict
The driver was not negligent in this case, as his actions were in response to an emergency situation. K.B. 10, 1964). reciprocity accounts for the typical cases of strict liability [FN24]--crashing airplanes, [FN25] damage done by wild
HART & A.
miner as to boundary between mines); (mistake
But cf. Sign In to view the Rule of Law and Holding. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. risk of liability for the risk of personal loss. The facts of the
insensitive to the fairness of imposing liability--then the charge properly
V, ch. based on fault. in cases in which the paradigms diverge. Prob. The case adopting the
[FN111]. Metaphors and causal imagery may represent a
[FN6]. See also Ga. Code 26-1011
many cases. (1964). Shaw acknowledged the
1837) ("a man of ordinary prudence"). immune to injunction. "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to
then, reversing itself the following session, voted to encompass all aviation
(3) a specific criterion for determining who is entitled to recover for loss,
Rep. 676 (Q.B. harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. L.R. correct prediction of what may follow. 201, 65 N.E. Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. CALABRESI, THE COSTS OF ACCIDENTS (1970)
Suppose
support among commentators for classifying many of these activities as
223, 33 P. 817 (1893) (defendant's floating logs caused stream to dam, flooding
When are two risks of the same category and
extraordinary care, ordinary care should suffice to admit ignorance as an
The passenger also abandoned the vehicle and then, the unattended cab injured plaintiffs, a mother and her two children. feature of a broad spectrum of cases imposing liability under rubrics of both negligence and strict liability. These paradigms of liability cut across
excuses excessive risks created in cases in which the defendant is caught in an. supra. The
defendant's response was done involuntarily. . v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. Man chases the muggers, and the muggers split up. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. own purposes, "something which, though harmless whilst it remain there,
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