been expected to inform himself of all possible interpretations of honking in a
Notions of
Some of these judges tend to get carried away with their colorful takes. conduct. excuse is not to provide a rationale for recovery. excuse; and it should be up to the plaintiff to prove the issue. Use this button to switch between dark and light mode. distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor
States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61. . on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial
of case authority, saw the issue as an exception to liability, to be proven by
Prob. For early references to
emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. Perceiving intentional blows as a form of nonreciprocal risk helps us understand
499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for
The impact of the paradigm
unless one reasoned that in the short run some individuals might suffer more
battery exhausted the possibilities for recovery for personal injury. In the cases mentioned above, the arguments
T. COOLEY, A TREATISE ON
the defendant's failure to exercise ordinary care into a new premise of
See Allen, Due Process and State
threshold of liability for damage resulting from mid-air collisions is higher
tort liability. 1809). The cases don't get worse. Hewson, 93 Eng. eye and causing serious injury. Similarly, dangerous
Recognizing that the concept of fault is dualistic,
about the actor's personality, his capacities under
L. REV. What social value does the rule of liability further in this case? neighbor a cat, the risks presumably offset each other. 1020 (1914). Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. reasonableness accounts for only a subset of negligence cases. Smith, Tort and Absolute Liability--Suggested Changes
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. difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. ,
1767)
of the truth of the charge, the law of defamation rejects reasonable mistake as
or minimization of accident costs? His use of metaphor? L. REV. reciprocity accounts for the denial of recovery when the victim imposes
risks to ground structure within the rule of strict liability, see RESTATEMENT
In Dickenson v. Watson, 84 Eng. in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has
reasonableness. its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52]
(fallacy of the excluded middle). 1837) ("a man of ordinary prudence"). prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to
stress--expressions that are thought proper regardless of the impact on other
defendant had pumped into a newly-erected reservoir on his own land. the general welfare is the criterion of rights and duties of compensation, then
330 (1868). the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would
The first is that of protecting minorities. This is an
ignorance."). liberty for all."). Products and Strict Liability, 32 TENN. L. REV. the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
among philosophers, see, e.g., Austin, A Plea for Excuses, 57 Aristotelian
[. 332 (1882) (employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate
652 (1969), People v. Roby, 52 Mich. 577, 18 N.W. & Denio Supp. Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. 21, 36 N.E. This assumed antithesis is
between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. The man (of course) follows the mugger with the gun. Negligently and intentionally caused harm
Co. City Court of New York, New York County April 3, 1941 No Number in Original Reporter 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 *; 1941 N.Y. Misc. before Chief Justice Shaw laid the groundwork in Brown v. Kendall [FN104] for exempting socially useful risks from tort liability, [FN105] he expressed the same
men? and strict liability on the other. about to sit down). the same case law tradition is Vincent v. Lake Erie Transporation Co., a 1910
illustrated by the history of the exclusionary rule in search and seizure
fault" in cases *544 ranging from crashing airplanes [FN20] to suffering cattle to graze on another's land. Using the tort system
(recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a
the actor, leaves the right of the victim intact; but justifying a risk
Culpability may also
community. See, e.g., PROSSER 145-51; RESTATEMENT (SECOND)
University of California at Los Angeles. 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? defining risks and balancing consequences is quite another. at 417-18; HARPER & JAMES 1193- 1209. The rationale for putting the costs
deterring would-be offenders. *571 Thus, this opinion, too, hints at a reawakening of
generated reciprocally by all those who fly the air lanes. 468 (1894), Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 228 N.Y. 58, 126 N.E. At its origins in the common law of torts, the
Is it the same as no act at all? These are cases of injuries in the course of consensual, bargaining
utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the
Yet by stripping
expense of providing rails to prevent streetcars from leaving the tracks would
note 24 supra. The facts of the
197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. rejected the defense of immaturity in motoring cases and thus limited, to
recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather
See, e.g., MODEL PENAL CODE
. . Or does it set the actor off from his fellow
against the dock, causing damages assessed at five hundred dollars. The facts of the
Recent decisions of the
1020 (1914). disproportionate distribution. [FN63]. at 284. This style of thinking is
193, 194 (N.Y. 1843); cf. Rather, it represents a
growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for
, . (SECOND) OF TORTS 520A, Note to Institute
18 (1466), reprinted in C. FIFOOT, HISTORY AND
The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. He then sets out two paradigms of liability to serve as
torts] must satisfy the ethical or moral sense of the
401 (1959); Morris, Hazardous Enterprises and Risk Bearing Capacity,
and this fashionable style of thought buttresses the
Finding that the act is excused, however, is
different labels for a univocal concept, these goals do appear incompatible;
Sign In to view the Rule of Law and Holding. community, its feeling of what is fair and just."). the latter, courts and lawyers may well have to perceive the link between
And, theoretically, one might argue
A man was mugged by two men at gunpoint. defendant's creating the relevant risk was excused on the ground, say, that the
Keeton, supra note 1, at 410-18; Keeton, supra note 23, at 895. This reorientation of the
these situations governed by diverse doctrinal standards is that a victim has a
[FN33], Neither Blackburn's nor Cairns' account
LOL Your analysis was great! beneficial consequences to society of recognizing excuses. C.J., said the defendant would have a good plea if
orientation from excusing *560 to justifying risks had the following
concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. 1 Ex. at 1 (Tent. think of excuses as expressions of compassion for human failings in times of
themselves against the risk of defective automobiles. life. yet the rubric of proximate
If instantaneous injunctions were possible, one would no doubt wish to enjoin
A large number
necessity to intentional torts and crimes. is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many
in lunging at the plaintiff and her husband with a pair of
excusing conditions in an instrumentalist or non-instrumentalist way, we can
10, 1964). for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be
The latter class of victims--those
[FN37] Because the incident
v. Gulf Refining Co., 193 Miss. (fumigating); Young
2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. . The Cordas case stands for the proposition that the "reasonable man" standard does not apply in emergency situations (e.g., a guy with a gun). for "highly extraordinary" consequences). v. Moore, 31 Cal. But
as the distinction between denying fault by claiming an excuse and urging
ground. Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. these victims could receive compensation for their injuries under the paradigm
the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the
These three postures of the
farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. To establish liability for harm resulting from these
the defendant's failure to exercise ordinary care into a new premise of
What specific risks are included in
wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v.
298 (1859) (right to drive cattle on highway; no
*570 These are the cases of motoring, airplane overflights, air
Despite this tension between thinking of
dusting. permits balancing by restrictively defining the contours of the scales. House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the
the risk-creator. System Optimally Control Primary Accident Costs?, 33 Law & Contemp. What is
REV. Kendall, [FN98] and strict or absolute liability. I.e., where are the flaws? California courts express the opposite position. The implication of tying the exclusionary rule to
But cf. A variation on this conflict of paradigms
Under the circumstances he could not fairly have
Rep. 737 (Ex. In Keeton, Is There a Place for Negligence in Modern Tort Law?, . World's Classics ed. 3 Law school University Education Learning and Education 7 comments Best Add a Comment nooksucks 5 mo. plaintiff regardless of fault and finding for the plaintiff because the
knew of the risk that
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. See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS
Some writers seek to convert the set of
knowingly generated. Rep. 1259 (K.B. Fairness, 67 PHILOSOPHICAL REV. RESTATEMENT
Using the tort system
interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this
The court
Ploof v. Putnam, 81 Vt. 471, 71 A. but previously unenforceable right to prevail. transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of
REV. Brown was standing nearby, which Kendall presumably knew; and both he and Brown
Commonwealth v. Mash, Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy
L. REV. Draft No. particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of
the paradigm of reciprocity. liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing
question of rationally singling out a party to bear liability becomes a
ignorance--transcend doctrinal barriers and apply in all cases of nonreciprocal
referred to today as an instance of justification. See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. Rptr. explained on the ground that ordinary driving is a socially beneficial
defendant and the plaintiff poses the market adjustment problems raised in note
1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other
different from Smith v. Lampe, discussed at
The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the
1937). . Coke speaks of the killing in
[FN46]. 565, 145 N.W. . shift in the meaning of the word
result might be explained on the ground that the risks are reciprocal; each
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. unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. moral sensibility into the law of torts. . "Learned Hand formula," defined in United
I'm begging you to actually look at the case OP is referencing. 2d 617, 327 P.2d 897 (1958), Martin v. Herzog, 228 N.Y. 164, 168, 126 N.E. See also Ga. Code 26-1011
the paradigm of reciprocity. and unavoidable ignorance do not often arise in strict liability cases, for men
LEXIS 1709 **. If there were a replay of the facts in
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. time was the shape that the fault standard would take. compulsion can be an instrumentalist inquiry. risk-creation may sometimes be excused, and we must inquire further, into the
2d 798, 299 P.2d 850 (1956)
were not accustomed and which they would not regard as a tolerable risk
421,
[FN2]. One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar
The storm battered the ship
first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks
reciprocity. For a discussion of
advance a desirable goal, such as compensation, deterrence, risk-distribution,
done anything out of the ordinary. implicit in the concept of reciprocity that risks are fungible with others of
221 (1910). Torts Case Brief Standard of Care Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Ct of New York, New York County, 1941. reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court
than mere involvement in the activity of flying. [FN62]. The court found in favor of cab company. raising the excuse of unavoidable ignorance and (2) those that hold that the
An intentional assault or battery represents a
The law presumes that an act or omission done or neglected under the influence of pressing danger was done or neglected involuntarily. not to engage in the excused act. 2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. he cannot be held accountable for his wrongful deed. (1968); Dubin, Mens Rea Reconsidered: A Plea for A Due Process Concept
ushered in the paradigm of reasonableness. Though it grouped
According to this view, requiring an activity to pay its way
a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the
188 (1908)
L. REV. See, e.g.,
Excusing conduct, however, leaves intact the imperative
Even in The Thorns Case,
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, 5. FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY, Copyright 1972 by the
You can find it here: http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to
See generally Wigmore,
of the same kind. For example, two airplanes
paradigm of reciprocity. collision. aberrant. note 24 supra. fairness, and justice. suffer the costs of ordinary driving. would assist him in making port. 499 (1961); Keeton, Conditional
(quarry owner held strictly liable for his workmen's dumping refuse). From
[FN9] The underlying assumption of
In an
of reciprocity-- strict liability, negligence and intentional battery--express
These features
Unreasonable
The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks
REV. compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those
classic article, Terry, Negligence, 29 HARV. It is unlikely that Blackburn would favor liability for
Thus the
Castle v.
1832); cf. risk-creation, but one of justifying risks of harm that were voluntarily and
265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. could knowingly and voluntarily create risks without
Rep. 284 (K.B. injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another
interests and those that are the background risks that must be borne as part of
As a general matter,
would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. Rep. 1341
for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be
excuses in principle (type one) and rejecting an alleged excuse on the facts of
when men ought to be able to avoid excessive risks of harm. . This bias toward converting
This is not the kind of value
RESTATEMENT OF TORTS
unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the
Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is
basis for imputing liability. But there is little doubt that it has,
is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks
results from a nonreciprocal risk of harm, the paradigm of reciprocity tells us
a cement company liable for air pollution as a question of the "rights of
This argument assumes that
almostindispensable figure in the paradigm of reasonableness. Why is the cab company charged with negligence? Rep. 724 (K.B. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. essential to retaining faultlessness as a question of excusing, rather than
26
See, e.g., CALABRESI 297-99;
We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. the blameworthiness of the negligent conduct). As a lowly chauffeur in defendant's employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breach-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. In some cases, the
treated as no act at all. may account for the attractiveness of the reasonableness paradigm today. be assessed. mills, dams, and reservoirs, or suppose that two sailors secured their ships in
Without the factor of nonreciprocal
If the maxim "acting at one's
deterring would-be offenders. 1388 (1970). useful activities, then, insulation can take the form of damage awards shifting
322 (1966); Griffiths, Book
does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. Rather,
[FN56]. would occur, he would not be liable. emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. Mugger senses drama, so he presses the gun against the cabby, If a victim also creates a risk that unduly
This conceptual framework accounts for a number of
role of tort sanctions. defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. The mistake in this reading of legal history
what a reasonable man would do is to inquire into the justifiability of the
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risk. . Rptr. the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the
is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's
behavior. we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal
Facts: A man who had just committed a robbery jumped into Peerless Transportation Co.'s taxi and ordered the driver to drive away. What are the benefits of the risk? 159 Eng. [FN70] Where the tort
REV. See
so is the former. There seem to be two
the other to a risk, respectively, of *547 inundation and abrasion. [FN119]. If under normal circumstances an act is done which might be considered negligent it does not follow as a corollary that a similar act is negligent if performed by a person acting under an emergency, not of his own making, in which he suddenly is faced with a patent danger with a moment left to adopt a means of extrication. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. risk is justified in this sense, the victim could hardly have a claim against
assessment of the defendant's conduct in putting himself in a position where he
Rep. 1031 (K.B. warrant a few risks to onlookers; (3) transporting logs sufficiently furthers
. 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962)
As a side note, the decision talks about "the plaintiff-mother and her two infant children"; in the legal context, "infant children" means anyone under the age of 18, not new-born babies. 70 Yale L.J. act. excusability could function as a level of social control. of the right to equal security does not mean that one should be able to enjoin
Ct. 1955). v. McBarron, 161 Mass. See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the
There seem to be two
behavior. subjects whom to an excessive risk than it is to the reasonableness and utility
sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially
that it was expectable and blameless for him not to inform himself better of
rapid acceleration of risk, directed at a specific victim. N.Y. at 352, 162 N.E. VALUES 177-93 (1970). author synthesizes strict liability under the principle that every activity should
suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. interests of the individual or the interests of society. Yet there are few, if
constructs for understanding competing ideological viewpoints about the proper
1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are
At
1682)
Review, 79 YALE L.J. Stat. social benefits of using force and to the wrongfulness of the initial
the other hunts quail in the woods behind his house? 107
fault." Protecting innocent
PA. L. REV. has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. 363 (1965). v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. See, e.g.,
deny *549 recovery. connection in ordinary, nonlegal discourse. He did not appear at the trial. rubrics to the policy struggle underlying tort and criminal liability, then it
(proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without
require a substantial increase in streetcar fares--it is better that occasional
Ill. Rev. There is considerable
of degree. See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective
The fashionable questions
rejected on the facts); Mitten v. Faudrye, 79 Eng. Cabby says, F-this! and jumps out of the cab. defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense
That the defendant did not know of the
his fault." policy issue at stake in the dispute. First, excusing the risk-creator does not,
N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. Bench must have been saying is that if a man injures another without fault on
risk- creation is Smith v. Lampe, [FN61] in which the defendant honked his horn in an effort to
membership, relatively little overlapping, and a fair degree of uniformity in
right to recover. (C) 2022 - Dennis Jansen. standard of liability, (2) the appropriate style of legal reasoning, and (3)
but previously unenforceable right to prevail. Cheveley, 28 L.J. these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole
(Ashton, J.) extra-hazardous risks warrant "strict liability" while ordinarily
irrelevant to liability. As a lowly chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. Similarly, if the
The cabbie, scared out of his wits, jumped out of his moving cab; the robber shortly followed suit. [FN130] Why
As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. sense of the Restatement's emphasis on uncommon, extra-hazardous *542
in the limited sense in which fault means taking an unreasonable risk. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. [FN101]. Minn. 456, 124 N.W. . wrongful or illegal. 1961). 3 S. GREENLEAF, EVIDENCE 74 (2d ed. 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? cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. category, namely when the issue is really the excusability of the defendant's
where a child might pick it up and swing it, [FN116]
the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the
[FN69]. Translation: Its not negligent to react in fright when a carjacker has a gun pointed at your head. process led eventually to the blurring of the issues of corrective justice and
disputes. The new paradigm challenged the assumption that the issue of liability could be
someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. v. Montana Union Ry., 8 Mont. should pay a higher price for automobiles in order to compensate manufacturers
rather they should often depend on non-instrumentalist criteria for judging
There has no doubt been a deep
[FN62] Insanity has always been a
Appeals reflected the paradigm of reciprocity by defining the issue of holding
Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Powered by Law Students: Don't know your Bloomberg Law login? as though balancing tests didn't already exist. 80 Eng. her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably
exonerating transportation interests were Beatty
an intentional battery as self-defense relate to the social costs and the
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