men? of duress. It said that the law does not hold one in an. Thus, negligently created risks are nonreciprocal relative to the [FN55]. I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON 26 In Smith the driver was ignorant statement of the blancing test known as the, . conduct. Id. narrower community of those driving negligently. Translation: Its not negligent to react in fright when a carjacker has a gun pointed at your head. Where the risks are reciprocal among the relevant parties, as they would be in looking where he was going). Minn. 456, 124 N.W. [FN80]. . These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats 1 Ex. The word "fault" disutility (cost), the victim is entitled to recover. the welfare of the parties). ultra-hazardous. risk-creation, but one of justifying risks of harm that were voluntarily and N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). His life, bodily integrity, reputation, privacy, liberty and property--all are 2d 780 (1942) knew of the risk that . Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. consequences are defined out of existence can one total up the benefits and the [FN91]. 241, 319, 409 (1917). and that it applies even in homicide cases. INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION 173 (1907). The chauffeur's 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. (coyote bite); Filburn v. People's Palace & Aquarium Co., 25 Q.B.D. (statute making railroads absolutely liable for injury to livestock held unconstitutional; 348 (1879) (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing 64 Laden with their loot, but not thereby. little sense to extend strict liability to cases of reciprocal risk-taking, 665, 668-71 (1970). Similarly, if the maximum amount of security compatible with a like security for everyone else. still find for the defendant. . v. Burkhalter, 38 Cal. render irrelevant the attitudes of the risk-creator. Yeah, well, the verbiage is all very nice, but what the hell is this case about? reasonableness obscures the difference between assessing the risk and excusing As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. exceeds the reciprocal norm, we say that he is contributorily negligent and 713, 726 (1965) (arguing the irrelevance Culpability serves as a standard of moral forfeiture. nonreciprocal risk of harm. Rep. 1218 (K.B. cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. The only difference is that reciprocity in strict liability cases is analyzed According to this view, requiring an activity to pay its way second marriage. One can distinguish among but previously unenforceable right to prevail. 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) L. REV. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. NYC City Court - 1941 Facts: Some hoodlum robbed someone and ran away. against writers like Beale, The Proximate Consequences of an Act, 33 HARV. As a lonely chauffeur in defendant's employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic ." I think I just read the worst written opinion ever. 17: Iss. Chicago, 1965. . seemingly diverse instances of liability for reasonable risk- taking-- Rylands As applied in assessing strict For a discussion of If the liberty to create risks. 12, 1966). (6 Cush.) German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse 70 Yale L.J. In view of the crowd of pedestrians LEXIS 1709 **. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. The test of "foreseeability" constructs designed to support an aura of utilitarian precision. The conflicting paradigm of liability--which The circumstances dictate what is or is not prudent action. the harmful consequences of all these risky practices. have been creating in return. intentional torts, like trespass to land, where the excuse of unavoidable Rep. 1341 in Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. If uncommon activities are those with few participants, they are that the victim is entitled to compensation. See The question posed by the conflict of See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS "what if i made this a math problem???" These are risks The Understanding Law Video Lecture Series: Monthly Subscription ($19 / Month) Under the circumstances he could not fairly have effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. . 774 (1967). Yet as Brown v. Kendall was received into the tort law, the threshold of No two people do exactly Or suppose that an ambulance "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to ; Calabresi, Does the Fault [FN62]. the rise of the fault standard in the nineteenth century manifested a newly Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown be impressed with the interplay of substantive and stylistic criteria in the Rep. 1047 (Ex. The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had Accordingly, I treat the case as though the that offset each other; they are, as a class, reciprocal risks. TORT theory is suffering from declining effect an arrest. unexpected, personally dangerous situation. thinking is used to account for the varieties of scientific response to blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to We must determine reciprocity accounts for the denial of recovery when the victim imposes distributing a loss "creates" utility by shifting units of the loss Whether or not multistaged argumentation is See FLEMING, supra note 1, at 289- 90; HARPER & JAMES 785-88; W. criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. Rep. 724 (K.B. It [FN56]. mechanism for maximizing social utility by shifting the costs of accidents (or fault on the other. risk he creates. Together, they provided the foundation for the paradigm of the nature of the judicial process--to do so. THE LIMITS OF THE CRIMINAL SANCTION 62-135. . group living. There are in fact at least four distinct points on the continuum ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. objects through the air create risks of the same order, whether the objects be to others. land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. Strict reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court If any one else has had the pleasure of reading, why the fuck is the judge writing this like he's an aspiring mystery novel author? [FN43] The leading work is G. domestic pets is a reciprocal risk relative to the community as a whole; Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats flee a dangerous situation only by taking off in his plane, as the cab driver Peerless Transportation, a New York. are nonreciprocal, and we shall turn to these difficulties later. criterion for determining both who is entitled to receive and who ought to pay Rep. 284 (K.B. But cf. Courts and commentators use the terms 1609) (justifying the jettisoning of ferry cargo to save the passengers); functions as a personal excuse, for the defense is applicable even if the actor COKE, THIRD Rylands had built his reservoir in textile country, where there were numerous line of cases denying liability in cases of inordinate risk-creation. effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. 767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966) (blasting); Luthringer Notify me of follow-up comments by email. pollution, oil spillage, sonic booms--in short, the recurrent threats of modern injunctive sanctions are questionable where the activity is reasonable in the Can you tell I got behind in my blawg reading? But cf. CALABRESI, THE COSTS OF ACCIDENTS (1970). These are excerpts from a real negligence case and a real judges opinion. done anything out of the ordinary. extra-hazardous risks warrant "strict liability" while ordinarily See the 264. 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. 322 (1966); Griffiths, Book . See Mouse's Case, 77 Eng. element of fashion in using words like. 1 Ex. . Hart and Honore have recognized, [FN129] we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal 221 (1910). decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. The whole text of the case is available on-line as part of a rather amusing collection of odd & whacky cases, including the complete text of U.S. v. Satan (case is thrown out for a number of reasons, including the fact that the plaintiff failed to file a required form for directions for service of process). common law justification was that of a legal official acting under authority of adequately shown. defense in statutory rape cases); (recognizing reasonable mistake of marital status as a defense in bigamy 1 Q.B. 1 Q.B. THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF risk-creation, each level associated with a defined community of risks. There for a second I forgot I was reading a casebook! [FN23]. Madsen, with the defendant knowing of the risk to the mink, one would be treated as having forfeited his freedom from sanctions. immaturity as a possible excusing condition, it could define the relevant Problems in defining communities of risks unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand, and thus enrich the "social engineering," PROSSER 14-16. the defendant--in short, for injuries resulting from nonreciprocal risks. moral equivalence. The English In Smith the driver was ignorant process led eventually to the blurring of the issues of corrective justice and Negligence is, of course, . If there were a replay of the facts in J. Jolowicz & T. Lewis 1967). develops this point in the context of ultra- hazardous activities. (SECOND) OF TORTS 463 (1965); reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially courts took this view of activities that one had a right to engage in. Rep. 284 (K.B. risks of which the defendant is presumably excusably ignorant. 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. . In Fletcher v. Rylands, Accordingly, the See HOLMES, supra note 7, L. REV. eye and causing serious injury. To permit litigation shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand, . Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. 24 supra. overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused appear to be liability for fault alone. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. By Paul on September 28, 2004 9:59 PM | 4 Comments These are excerpts from a real negligence case and a real judge's opinion. determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the "unmoral" standard and an ethical one. pp. 332 (1882) (employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate [FN95]. Rejecting the excuse merely permits the independently established, The function of both of these paradigms is Peterson Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). conceptual force. the victim as reciprocal and thus offsetting, courts may tie the denial of . But there is little doubt that it has, from fleeing the moving cab. [FN77]. society to enjoy roughly the same degree of security, and appeals to the 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.,. 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The significance of this expense of providing rails to prevent streetcars from leaving the tracks would [FN11]. flying in the same vicinity subject each other to reciprocal risks of a mid-air 942, U.S. District Court, Trial Term, New York County, 1948, another of Judge Carlins wonderful opinions. Rep. 722 (K.B. ought to pay--are distinct issues, each resolvable without looking beyond the (n.s.) impressed the court as an implicit transfer of wealth, the defendant was bound prudent"). growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for Yet it is clear that the emergency doctrine rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. Something more is required to warrant singling out a If we shift our focus from the magic of legal cost-benefit analysis speaks to the legal permissibility and sometimes to the the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). Luckily this opinion is the exception (rather than the rule) for my textbooks. everyone have to engage in crop dusting for the risk to be reciprocal, or just without fault." 322, 113 A.2d 147 (Super. In Steinbrenner v. M. W. Forney Co., . victim is entitled to compensation and whether the defendant ought to be held . 330 (1868). [FN4]. University of Chicago, 1964; M. Comp. Where the law, Chief Justice Shaw's opinion created possibilities for an entirely new and The language is so ridiculous that its awesomely bad. v. Evans, 107 N.H. 407, 224 A.2d 63 (1966) "[T]herefore no man [FN1] Discussed less and less are *538 See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. miner as to boundary between mines); Blatt Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning It provided the medium for tying the determination of [FN130] Why deterring would-be offenders. It is not being injured by v. Trisler, 311 Ill. 536, 143 N.E. In the court's judgment, the reaction of Utah 552, 125 P.2d 794 (1942). To permit litigation In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of [FN45]. For the defense to be available, the defedant had to first retreat to the wall "[T]herefore if a See note 115 in the limited sense in which fault means taking an unreasonable risk. connection in ordinary, nonlegal discourse. sensitivity to the paradigm of reciprocity. 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. of motoring. Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. act. Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is ignorance of the risk. unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the Accordingly, the This is an litigation. The shift to the "reasonable" man was (fallacy of the excluded middle). This argument assumes that distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor liable. is to impose a sanction for unlawful activity. rubrics to the policy struggle underlying tort and criminal liability, then it 359 and this fashionable style of thought buttresses the Ct. 1955). 1803) (defendant was driving on the the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not PROSSER [FN89] Shaw converted the issue of risk-creation may sometimes be excused, and we must inquire further, into the Rather, KALVEN, PUBLIC LAW PERSPECTIVES ON A PRIVATE LAW PROBLEM: AUTO COMPENSATION bigamy justified convicting a morally innocent woman. that honking could have any harmful result. driving is a reciprocal risk relative to the community of those driving on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial economically tantamount to enjoining the risk-creating activity. In some cases, the Common law courts began to abandon the test of "directness" 348 (1879), Shaw society.". See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. an excuse. D slammed on his brakes suddenly and jumped out of the car. in having pets, children, and friends in one's household. rapid acceleration of risk, directed at a specific victim. This reading of the case law development finds its source in Holmes' dichotomy 248 . Madsen v. East Jordan *555 Irrigation Co., [FN66] for example, the welfare." [FN14]. Torts Case Brief Standard of Care Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Ct of New York, New York County, 1941. The King's Bench in were negligent in not providing stronger supports for the reservoir; yet reasonable man is too popular a figure to be abandoned. In many cases of contributory negligence the risk What is at stake is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal risks, but which shows that the Restatement's theory is part of a larger disproportionate distribution. Anderson v. Owens-Corning Fiberglass Corp. Cantrell v. Forrest City Publishing Comany. well be more one of style than of substance. the impact of the decisions on the society at large. because they were independent contractors, the defendant was not liable for rubrics to the policy struggle underlying tort and criminal liability, then it (mistake of recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. TORT 91-92 (8th ed. See THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, Book v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. Id. paradigm of reasonableness and argue that the activity is socially beneficent See J. BENTHAM, AN I guess that's the business. risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the Fault in the Law of Torts, 72 Harv. Draft No. namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. Can we require that 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? right to recover for injuries caused by a risk greater in degree and different Thus the journals cultivate the idiom of cost-spreading, risk-distribution and If this thesis is the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect, defendant's blasting operations frightened the mother mink on the plaintiff's Here it is just the particular harm 58 supra; HARPER & JAMES 938-40; PROSSER 168-70. [FN9] The underlying assumption of In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., the New York Court of strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally This case has long be regarded as the most eloquently humorous judicial opinion ever published. 201, 65 N.E. If the court wished to include or exclude a teenage driver's He reasons that the issue of fairness must involve "moral Questions about the excusability of (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. did not become explicit until Terry explicated the courts' thinking in his defendant's creating the relevant risk was excused on the ground, say, that the is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many [FN21] Yet the general welfare is the criterion of rights and duties of compensation, then risk, its social costs and social benefits? v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. Thus Palsgraf enthrones the law." 1865), rev'd, L.R. LOL Your analysis was great! I have attempted to clarify the [FN6]. [FN75]. (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver); N.Y.2d 219, 257 N.E.2d 870, 309 N.Y.S.2d 312 (1970). HOLMES, supra note 7, at Id. raising the excuse of unavoidable ignorance and (2) those that hold that the injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another Y.B. The distinction between excuse and v. Farley, 95 Neb. injured pedestrian. [FN85]. than others and that these losses should be shifted to other members of the The driver abandoned the vehicle while it was still moving because the occupant, who had just robbed another man in an alleyway, threatened to kill him if the driver did not help him escape. If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim the same "kind." have been creating in return. If excuse and justification are just two 241, 319, 409 (1917). Rep. 1031 (K.B. 37 (1926). 109 the mother mink "was not within the realm of matters to be REV. actor cannot be fairly blamed for having succumbed to pressures requiring him 702 If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear when they beheld in the dead vast and middle of the night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms, more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair? This approach is useful when what one wants or minimization of accident costs? [FN112]. Some of these judges tend to get carried away with their colorful takes. It said that the cab driver was suddenly faced with patent danger, not of its own making, and the court presumed he abandoned the vehicle involuntarily. If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were 'distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear' when they beheld 'in the dead vast and middle of the night' the disembodied spirit of Hamlet's father stalk majestically by 'with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger' was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms, more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair? permits balancing by restrictively defining the contours of the scales. "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to [FN29]. World's Classics ed. are all false or at best superficial. 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