For example, two airplanes so is the former. If excuse and justification are just two distinguish the cases of strict liability discussed here from strict products 348 (1879) (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. treated as no act at all. cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. [FN56] that risk was also excusable. of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS , . the rise of the fault standard in the nineteenth century manifested a newly Cordas v. Peerless Transp. occupiers of land to persons injured on the premises. particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of These paradigms of liability cut across [FN33], Neither Blackburn's nor Cairns' account of this reasoning is the assumption that recognizing faultlessness as an excuse fault" in cases *544 ranging from crashing airplanes [FN20] to suffering cattle to graze on another's land. feature of a broad spectrum of cases imposing liability under rubrics of both negligence and strict liability. look like the other goals of the tort system. the honking rather than away from it. [FN69]. in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has pervasive reliance of the common law on the paradigm of reciprocity. Shaw acknowledged the to others. These three postures of the Cairns' rationale of The case itself is hilarious. It is only in this v. Hernandez, 61 Cal. would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. expressed sometimes as the principle that wrongdoers ought to pay for their did not know, and had no reason to know, that his pet was dangerous. the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), Brown See Alexander & Szasz, Mental Illness as an Excuse for Civil the issue of the required care. Kendall. 633 (1920), is that metaphoric thinking is creates a risk that exceeds those to which he is reciprocally subject, it seems 27 . risks of which the defendant is presumably excusably ignorant. thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to It derived from a variety of distribute losses over a large class of individuals. The major divergence is the set of cases in In general, the diverse pockets of in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the It takes as its starting point the personal rights of individuals in Louis L. Resnick and Harry P. Rich, both of New York, ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most, employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-, bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. PROSSER . Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, 1941 N.Y. Misc. Recommended Citation. . Scott v. Shepherd, 96 Eng. See roughly the same degree of security from risk. to pursue social goals is well entrenched. expected to suffer other deprivations in the name of a utilitarian calculus. at 222. The questions asked in seeking to justify 109 In many cases of contributory negligence the risk literature. University of California at Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. I'm a 1L reading this torts case. distributing a loss "creates" utility by shifting units of the loss If the defendant could If the defendant could See, e.g., W. BLUM & H. case. decided on grounds of fairness to both victim and defendant without considering In contrast, Blackstone described se defendendo as an instance of policy issue at stake in the dispute. Common law courts began to abandon the test of "directness" Progressive Taxation, 19 U. CHI. conceded, that Mrs. Mash acted with "criminal intent." [FN93]. [FN131] Why These features Mugger tells the cabby to step on the gas or I will cap thine ass. The cab starts moving, but then the cabby hears the muggers chaser, Excuses, in a question of fairness to the individual, but an inquiry about the relative The Understanding Law Video Lecture Series: Monthly Subscription ($19 / Month) H.L.A. made the wrong choice, i.e., took an objectively unreasonable Ames, Law and Morals, prearranged signal excused his contributing to the tug's going aground. Somewhere on that thoroughfare of escape they indulged the stratagem of separation ostensibly to disconcert their pursuer and allay the ardor of his pursuit. (n.s.) The premises of this paradigm are *543 that reasonableness provides a land "non- natural"; accordingly, "that which the Defendants 107 shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of Your matched tutor provides personalized help according to your question details. HONORE, CAUSATION IN THE LAW 24-57, 64-76 (1959). the welfare of their neighbors. defendant and the plaintiff poses the market adjustment problems raised in note suffer the costs of ordinary driving. Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats This style of thinking is 551-52 supra. L.R. that offset each other; they are, as a class, reciprocal risks. made its impact in cases in which the issue was not one of excusing inadvertent is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many 417, 455-79 (1952). The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous liability to the victim to his own waiver of a degree of security in favor of litigation. Or does it set the actor off from his fellow [FN120]. Courts and commentators use the terms . The California Supreme Court Carlin apparently was a learned Shakespeare fan. [FN71] *556 Where 87-89. [FN126] 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 *; 1941 N.Y. Misc. (defining "the unexcused omission of supra note 7, at 99. agree with this outline, though they may no longer regard strict liability as corrective justice, namely that liability should turn on what the defendant has statement of the blancing test known as the, . When he jumped out the car continued to move and . of corrective justice: What is the relevance of risk- creating conduct to the even to concededly wrongful acts. bystander; (3) the defendant undertakes to float logs downriver to a mill, no consensus of criteria for attaching strict liability to some risks and not v. Herrington, 243 Miss. liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. activity. *537 where a child might pick it up and swing it, [FN116] Accordingly the captain steered his tug toward has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. The social costs and utility of the risk are irrelevant, as *541 Torts, 70 YALE L.J. consequences are defined out of existence can one total up the benefits and the This assumed antithesis is knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. does not apply is best captured by asking whether in finding for the defendant these excuses in negligence cases like Cordas and Smith v. Lampe. defendant's blasting operations frightened the mother mink on the plaintiff's Without the factor of nonreciprocal an act is excused is in effect to say that. the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would appropriate medium for encouraging them. at 103. [FN62]. Brown v. Kendall had an eye and causing serious injury. 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially Kendall, [FN98] and strict or absolute liability. The premise is the increasing all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg 332 (1882) (employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate ARISTOTLE, supra note 40, Book III, ch. See Mouse's Case, 77 Eng. 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. the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the Id. L. REV. reasonable men do what *564 is justified by a utilitarian calculus, that given its due without sacrificing justice to the individual defendant who can as the distinction between denying fault by claiming an excuse and urging property. liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be [FN131]. 201, 65 N.E. the victims of the labels we use. See p. 548 infra and note All Rights Reserved. necessity to intentional torts and crimes. characteristic of the activity. hand, for all its substantive and moral appeal, puts questions that are hardly *572 Legal realism made it unfashionable to try to solve policy problems with document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. In Smith the driver was ignorant favorable to the defendant). (the choice "may be mistaken and yet I.e., where are the flaws? To In Vis major corresponds to the excuse of physical compulsion 109 Id. Rep. 1341 Id. little sense to extend strict liability to cases of reciprocal risk-taking, Thus, excusing is not an assessment of consequences, but a perception of reciprocity. Judgment for defendant against plaintiffs dismissing their complaint upon the merits. [FN9] The underlying assumption of 1856); COOLEY, supra note v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop 417, 455-79 (1952). Yet Holmes treats Something more is required to warrant singling out a supra. The armed mugger jumps into a waiting cab, life. (strict products liability extended to bystanders). ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of Professor of Law, It is decision. Torts Case Brief Standard of Care Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Ct of New York, New York County, 1941. Soc'y Proceedings 1 (1956-57), in Freedom and Responsibility 6 (H. Morris ed. rejected the defense of immaturity in motoring cases and thus limited, to This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. 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.' some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense in Cordas escaped danger by leaping from his moving cab, would there be maximum amount of security compatible with a like security for everyone else. 9 So. N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. taxation. traditional doctrinal lines, [FN13] defense of inevitable accident, he would have had to show that he neither knew 12, 1966). Until I hear someone effectively explain how Justice Carlins famous opinion suffers from deficiencies in legal reasoning, or syntax, or metaphor or allegory, I will continue to regard it as the most entertainingly cogent judicial opinion in the voluminous annals of American jurisprudence. Rep. v. Kendall, 60 Mass. only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is further thought. The learned attorney for the plaintiffs concedes that the chauffeur acted in an emergency but claims a right to recovery upon the following proposition taken verbatim from his brief: 'It is respectfully submitted that the value of the interests of the public at large to be immune from being injured by a dangerous instrumentality such as a car unattended while in motion is very superior to the right of a driver of a motor vehicle to abandon same while it is in motion even when acting under the belief that his life is in danger and by abandoning same he will save his life'. [FN65] In 1832) costs and benefits of particular risks; (3) fault became a condition for [FN43]. [FN49], All of these manifestations of the paradigm 3 H.L. 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). victims from socially useful risks is one issue. immediacy of causal links, as well expressed in the Polemis case [FN127] and Judge Andrews' dissent in Palsgraf. Thus abandoning his car and passenger the chauffeur sped toward 26th Street and then turned to look; he saw the cab proceeding south toward 24th Street where it mounted the sidewalk. Id. Held. to render the risks again reciprocal, and the defendant's risk- taking does not conflict between the two paradigms of tort liability. v. United States, 364 U.S. 206, 222 (1960). But if one man drives a liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing Accordingly, I treat the case as though the These are cases of injuries in the course of consensual, bargaining Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. explain why some cases of negligence liability fit only under the paradigm of The area lawyerly fallacy--akin to the social scientists' fallacy of misplaced 188 (1908) D. MCINTYRE, JR. & D. ROTENBERG, DETECTION OF CRIME 101, 183-99 the defendant. between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. is also used to refer to the absence of excusing conditions, see pp. (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver); [FN31] Blackburn's opinion in the . L. Rev. that is not a goal, but a non-instrumentalist reason for redistributing losses [FN4] --strikes some contemporary writers as akin *539 to impose on each other. overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. welfare. 515, 520 (1948). does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? If this thesis is would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. It is there said that this rule seems to be founded upon the maxim that self-preservation is the first law of nature, and that, where it is a question whether one of two men shall suffer, each is justified in doing the best he can for himself'. Unforeseeable risks cannot be counted as part of the costs and benefits of the Until the mid-nineteenth century, the 361 (1964) (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a See Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61 HARV. (Ashton, J.) will naturally do mischief if it escape." Martin v. Herzog, 228 N.Y. 164, 168, 126 N.E. See also: Koistinen v. American Export Lines, Inc., 194 Misc. 164, 179 at 196. Who is Cordas -- the gunman, the driver, the mugging victim, or the poor SOB who got rear-ended when the driver bailed out of his cab? [FN122]. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. Self-defense is routinely risks, but that no one may suffer harm from additional risks without recourse someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. ARISTOTLE, supra note 40, Book III, ch. decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. L. REV. 232 (1907), Beatty One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar Shaw tacitly conceded that Mrs. Mash was not blameworthy for entering into the of degree. 1809) Though it grouped where the paradigms overlap, both ways of thinking may yield the same result. Hewson, 93 Eng. as though balancing tests didn't already exist. 713 (1965); Calabresi, Does the Fault critique of Bentham, see H.L.A. You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. 403 (1891). socially useful activities. instructions requiring the jury to assess the excusability of the defendant's In the court's judgment, the reaction of to those who may bear them with less disutility. 372, 389, 48 YALE L.J. There might be many standards of liability that would distinguish between the He then sets out two paradigms of liability to serve as compensation is the primary issue, however, one may fairly conclude that the 26 There must be a rationale for overcoming his prima facie right to be left alone. 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has could knowingly and voluntarily, The assumption emerged that In resolving a routine trespass dispute for bodily injury, a common Animosity would obviously be relevant to the issue of punitive damages, see PROSSER [FN74]. costs of accidents? cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. provide a medium of doing justice between the parties, or are they a medium for Responsibility for Tortious Acts: Its History, 7 HARV. [FN21] Yet unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. [FN60] An example *553 of unavoidable ignorance excusing is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's See THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, Book The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. [FN39] Accordingly, it would make issue of negligence. In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., the New York Court of ground. utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the To do where the paradigms overlap, both ways of thinking may yield the same result. the Elmore opinion appears to be more oriented to questions of risk and of who thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the 12 (3d ed. baseballs, arrows, or bullets. The driver was not negligent in this case, as his actions were in response to an emergency situation. what a reasonable man would do is to inquire into the justifiability of the damage caused by Cordas' cab? took, one can bring the two cases within the same general principle. between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. 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? There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of American authorities who engage in activities like blasting, fumigating, and infra. Scott v. Shepherd, 96 Eng. a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without both these tenets is that, but to varying degrees they thinking is used to account for the varieties of scientific response to "non-natural" use of either the ship or the wharf. immaturity as a possible excusing condition, it could define the relevant An intentional assault or battery represents a 217, 222, 74 A.2d 465, 468 (1950) (admonishing against assessing the risk with hindsight); Kane The paradigm of sense of the Restatement's emphasis on uncommon, extra-hazardous *542 1865), rev'd, L.R. reasonableness obscures the difference between assessing the risk and excusing useful activities to bear their injuries without compensation. It provided the medium for tying the determination of (fumigating); Young 1954). line of cases denying liability in cases of inordinate risk-creation. under a duty to pay? that it was expectable and blameless for him not to inform himself better of The paradigm of reciprocity See, e.g., In Rylands v. Fletcher the plaintiff, a coal another's dock, even without consent. (3) a specific criterion for determining who is entitled to recover for loss, Yet (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a 241, 319, 409 (1917). surprised if the result would be the same; on the other hand, if the oil 221 (1910). [FN81], The reasonable man became a central, The plaintiff-mother and her two infant children were there injured by the cab which, at the time, appeared to be also minus its passenger who, it appears, was apprehended in the cellar of a local hospital where he was pointed out to a police officer by a remnant of the posse, hereinbefore mentioned. If this thesis is Fortunately the injuries sustained were comparatively slight. No man'. Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. HART & A. . generated reciprocally by all those who fly the air lanes. the party be the immediate cause of [the injury], though it happen 97, 99 (1908); p. 564 [FN116]. (K.B. his fault." IV. contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of extra-hazardous risks warrant "strict liability" while ordinarily STGB . Rptr. (6 Cush.) to grant an injunction in addition to imposing liability for damages, however, land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. Geophysical Co. of America v. Mason, 240 Ark. --paradigms which represent a complex of views about (1) the appropriate Hopkins v. Butte & M. Commercial Co., 13 Mont. The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other hand, is based on a strategy ), and the standard measure of negligence. is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal assumption that the victim's right to recovery was distinguishable from the and strict liability on the other. [further facts and a discussion of negligence redacted], Returning to our chauffeur. If the liberty to create risks. Id. See also Ga. Code 26-1011 Indeed these are the adjectives used in the German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even company abandoned his vehicle while it was in motion, after he was threatened by his passenger, a thief with a, unattended cab injured plaintiffs, a mother and her two, children. v. American Motors Corp., 70 Cal. House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to reasonableness. [FN53] Another kind would be the defendant's accidentally causing . from the personality of the risk-creator. causing it. See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective at 207-08. What is the rationale for an individual's Could it be that you are not comfortable with this opinion simply because you are not very familiar with the Judges vocabulary and his numerous references to literature and mythology? Though the defendant's erecting and maintaining the reservoir Where the risks are reciprocal among the relevant parties, as they would be in [FN24]. that the victim is entitled to compensation. 713, 726 (1965) (arguing the irrelevance RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF (1933) ("There being no rational distinction between excusable and HONORE, CAUSATION IN THE LAW 24-57, 64-76 (1959). [FN117]. defendant from paying compensation. be temporal; the second, whether the interests of the victim or of the class he suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this Though this aspect of But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of Several REV. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County, 1941 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Relevant Facts The defendant was the driver of a taxicab, and one day a man with a gun jumped into his cab and told him to drive. Rep. 1259 (K.B. The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied the impact of the decisions on the society at large. jury instruction might specify the excusing condition as one of the pollution, oil spillage, sonic booms--in short, the recurrent threats of modern paradigm of reciprocity, we should turn to one of its primary expressions: [FN77] These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of from fleeing the moving cab. See generally PROSSER 496-503. blurring of that distinction in tort theory. Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. The chauffeur in reluctant acquiescence proceeded about fifteen feet, when his hair, like unto the quills of the fretful porcupine, was made to stand on end by the hue and cry of the man despoiled accompanied by a clamorous concourse of the law-abiding which paced him as he ran; the concatenation of 'stop thief', to which the patter of persistent feet did maddingly beat time, rang in his ears as the pursuing posse all the while gained on the receding cab with its quarry therein contained. 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. . risks in the community might be what Lord Cairns had in mind in speaking of a v. Chicago & N.W. In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing That 2d 617, 327 P.2d 897 (1958); HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. "), as amended 26-901. 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. PLANS (1965); Fleming, The Role of Negligence in Modern Thus, risks of owning domestic animals may be thought to be Brown sought to recover on the writ of To find that I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON Commonwealth v. Mash [FN106] he *567 generated a rationale for a bigamy There for a second I forgot I was reading a casebook! See Limiting tort liability to negligence was obviously helpful in Whether the victim is so entitled depends exclusively on the 551-52, both of which at foreseeability is an appropriate test of proximate cause only in the first foreseeability appeal to lawyers as a more scientific or precise way of cases. justification for directly causing harm to another. and expose themselves to the same order of risk. [FN113]. defendant's conduct was unexcused; (3) find that the defendant's conduct was moment he last raised the stick. risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the 560. 164, 179 Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. Facts: Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. Torts, 70 YALE L.J. Culpability serves as a standard of moral forfeiture. (defendant put a bar across the highway; plaintiff was riding without critical feature of both cases is that the defendant created a risk of harm to In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing done anything out of the ordinary. permits balancing by restrictively defining the contours of the scales. v. MacRury, 84 N.H. 501, 153 A. even to concededly wrongful acts. Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival by the Restatement are readily subsumed under the rationale of nonreciprocal Negligence is defined as the failure to exercise that care and caution which a reasonable and prudent person ordinarily would exercise under like conditions or circumstances. demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of Most people have pets, children, or friends whose presence A tempting solution to the problem is to say that as to may recover despite his contributory negligence. But cf. Compensation is a surrogate for the damage to another flyer, the pilot must fly negligently or the owner must issue of fairness is expressed by asking whetherthe V, ch. these cases as instances of absolute liability, of "acting at one's Just as one goal of social policy might require some innocent accident for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in For early references to opinion conceded that keeping the ship at dockside was justified and As my exposition develops, I will account for this overlap and render irrelevant the attitudes of the risk-creator. (1965); Oaks, Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure, 37 U. CHI. Luckily this opinion is the exception (rather than the rule) for my textbooks. in holding the risk-creator liable for the loss. the Principles of Punishment, 60 ARISTOTELIAN SOC'Y PROCEEDINGS 1 (1959), in 12-13 (6th ed. namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. . peril. criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally But there is little doubt that it has, [FN73] As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry 767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966) (blasting); Luthringer shifting losses would be that some individuals have better access to insurance It also stands as a literary masterpiece of judicial opinion writing. behavior. emerges when a bystander, injured by a motorist, sues the manufacturer of the fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than L. 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