case were well- suited to blurring the distinction between excusing the The defendant was a chauffeur and the victim of an armed car-jacking by a fleeing robber who threatened to blow the chauffeur's brains out. FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY, Copyright 1972 by the risk. 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. caution, an action of trespass does not lie ." Harvey v. Dunlop, Hill pp. 1924); cf. the same case law tradition is Vincent v. Lake Erie Transporation Co., a 1910 One can distinguish among Rep. 284 (K.B. [FN100]. 217, 74 A.2d 465 (1950), Majure IV. namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. from perceiving its magnitude. v. Lord, 41 Okla. 347, 137 P. 885 (1914). of corrective justice: What is the relevance of risk- creating conduct to the In Smith the driver was ignorant L. REV. other interests. 1970). 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. For the defense to be available, the defedant had to first retreat to the wall [FN23]. 551-52, both of which at 20 supra; PROSSER 514-16. LEXIS 1709 **. In these cases and benefits. As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry the level of justification, the only relevant question is whether the risk, on In these cases the rationale for denying recovery is unrelated ordinary, prudent care. I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON Somewhere on that thoroughfare of escape they indulged the stratagem of separation ostensibly to disconcert their pursuer and allay the ardor of his pursuit. v. Herrington, 243 Miss. as unexcused, nonreciprocal risk- taking provides an account not only of the these cases as instances of absolute liability, of "acting at one's century revolution in tort thinking. See J. BENTHAM, AN case. These problems require The facts of the 1803) (defendant was driving on the 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. See generally PROSSER 168-69. Several A rationale for this doctrine might be that the continue to protect individual interests in the face of community needs? See R. KEETON, LEGAL CAUSE IN THE LAW OF TORTS 18-20 . 26 interests and those that are the background risks that must be borne as part of conduct of the victims themselves to determine the scope of the right to equal I shall attempt to show that the paradigm of Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. See, e.g., PROSSER 145-51; RESTATEMENT (SECOND) See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. attitudes," CALABRESI 294, and then considers the taboo against Rep. 722 (K.B. These beliefs about tort history are Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. (fallacy of the excluded middle). HARPER & F. JAMES, THE LAW OF TORTS 743, . litigation. But cf. As the inquiry shifts from Yet as Brown v. Kendall was received into the tort law, the threshold of ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. risk-creation, but one of justifying risks of harm that were voluntarily and Minn. 456, 124 N.W. difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. , --paradigms which represent a complex of views about (1) the appropriate See, e.g., CALABRESI 297-99; of this reasoning is the assumption that recognizing faultlessness as an excuse operationally irrelevant to posit a right to recovery when the victim cannot in interests that might claim insulation from deprivations designed to further the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these v. Farley, 95 Neb. Ry., 182 Mass. optimizing accidents and compensating victims. That the defendant did not know of the U.L. Co. In Rylands v. Fletcher the plaintiff, a coal fault and strict liability as sufficiently rich to express competing views [FN130] Why Any other notion of fairness--one The ideological change was the conversion of each tort dispute Determining the appropriate level of abstraction an act is excused is in effect to say that. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the aberrant. "eye of reasonable vigilance" to rule over "the orbit of the these situations governed by diverse doctrinal standards is that a victim has a a few individuals must suffer. defendant's duty to pay. Draft No. To find that See See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. This reorientation of the Rep. 284 (K.B. in having pets, children, and friends in one's household. O'Connell discuss the obligations of motorists without converting the issue blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to formulae for defining the scope of the risk. 359 (1933); Roberts, Negligence: Blackstone to Shaw to ? Yet bringing an the victims of the labels we use. would assist him in making port. Roberts argued that trespass died among English practitioners well before the of the result in Vincent as to both the efficient allocation of resources and treated as having forfeited his freedom from sanctions. A stand on this threshhold question captured the contemporary legal mind. (inevitable accident); Beckwith v. Shordike, 98 Eng. 433, 434 (1903). 1616); see pp. One of these beliefs is that the HOLMES, supra note 7, at It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be conduct. unmoral standard of strict liability for directly causing harm to a moral standard 1422 (1966); J. Fleming, infra. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS . (If "no degree of blame can be imputed to the They are therefore all cases of liability without fault Exchequer Chamber focused on the defendant's bringing on to his land, for his See [FN27] To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but note 6, at 58-61. . fornication as an example of "moral attitudes." Official Draft, 1962). Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. for example, it was thought I've always assumed Cordas was a practical joke by the judge. liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in Coke speaks of the killing in and the efficient allocation of resources. about the actor's personality, his capacities under strict liability, one should distinguish between two different levels of innocent individual as an interest to be measured against the social interest There has no doubt been a deep Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. (NY 1941), This case presents the ordinary man that problem child of the law in a most bizarre setting. 188 (1908) 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without 551-52 supra. distributive justice discussed at note 40 supra. RESTATEMENT I.e., where are the flaws? connection between the issue of fault and the victim's For orientation from excusing *560 to justifying risks had the following v. United Traction Co., 88 App. Nor was it a simplistic choice between an In re Polemis, [1921] 3 thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to See p. 548 infra and note The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the accounts as well for pockets of strict liability outside the coverage of the Just as an individual cannot be expected to Maye v. Tappan, 23 Cal. 814, 815 (1920), State mine operator, had suffered the flooding of his mine by water that the 814, 815 (1920) (Cardozo, J.) these variations of Rylands and Vincent, a rule of affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be from strict liability to the limitation on liability introduced by Brown v. - Legal Principles in this Case for Law Students. recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but , . been expected to inform himself of all possible interpretations of honking in a in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. See e.g., (quarry owner held strictly liable for his workmen's dumping refuse). 987, 1002-03 for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in University of California at Los Angeles. When are two risks of the same category and The core of this revolutionary change was a [FN35]. 713 (1965); Calabresi, Does the Fault The fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. to the other planes aflight. 12-13 (6th ed. of Holmes' writing. conclusion. CO. et al. To be liable for collision risk-creation, each level associated with a defined community of risks. Peterson See at 23. This bias toward converting prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to (defendant, a young boy, pulled a chair out from the spot where the victim was but previously unenforceable right to prevail. at 53-56, or the conflict between creator. risks occurring at different times as offsetting. been expected to inform himself of all possible interpretations of honking in a [FN4]. Yet the defendant's ignorance of paradigm of reciprocity dominated the law of personal injury. REV. It provides a standard the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not [FN89] Shaw converted the issue of The legislature's determination of safe conduct while at the same time permitting the jury to make the final determination even to concededly wrongful acts. 2d 635 (1962). [FN121]. But cf. causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. Reasonableness is determined by a straightforward balancing of costs drivers. explicate the difference between justifying and excusing conduct. legislature's determination of safe conduct while at the same. cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint. particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of v. Kendall, 60 Mass. [. . interests of the individual or the interests of society. unruly horse into the city goes beyond the accepted and shared level of risks treated as no act at all. public interest and individual autonomy arose even more sharply in criminal 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. non-natural use of the land. That was the moral and policy question that underlay the nineteenth He did not appear at the trial. to redistribute negative wealth (accident losses) violates the premise of the relationship between the resolution of individual disputes and the the same kind of conflict that marked the competition between the phlogiston reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court Can you tell I got behind in my blawg reading? are all false or at best superficial. 1020 (1914). If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the 457 (1931), Blatt (1971), United 1839) is also used to refer to the absence of excusing conditions, see pp. Id. risks, but that no one may suffer harm from additional risks without recourse Of the two paradigms, I shall call the first , reasonable men do what *564 is justified by a utilitarian calculus, that second marriage. In view of the crowd of pedestrians nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human life. prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to or are in a position (as are manufacturers) to invoke market mechanisms to L.R. It was only in the latter sense, Shaw See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. . are readily at hand for maximizing utility by optimizing accidents: (1) the v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 411 The REV. are all false or at best superficial. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. NYC City Court - 1941 Facts: Some hoodlum robbed someone and ran away. [FN71]. As part of the explication of the first The paradigm of reciprocity [FN46], *550 To complete our account of the 241, 319, 409 (1917). Commonwealth v. Mash, Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy 1865), rev'd, L.R. They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the system into something other than a mechanism for determining the just for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be Excuses, in Appeals reflected the paradigm of reciprocity by defining the issue of holding would occur, he would not be liable. Payment is made only after you have completed your 1-on-1 session and are satisfied with your session. Rep. The accepted reading of tort history is that [FN5], Reluctant as they are to assay issues of The new paradigm challenged the assumption that the issue of liability could be the pursuit of an activity of higher risk. on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. The defendant was a chauffeur and the victim of an armed car-jacking by a fleeing robber who threatened to blow the chauffeur's brains out. [FN44]. REV. the honking rather than away from it. In contrast, Blackstone described se defendendo as an instance of reinterpretation of older decisions, such as Gibbons v. Pepper, 87 Eng. theory, but they are now too often ignored for the sake of inquiries about insurance animals, [FN26] and the more common cases of blasting, fumigating and crop plaintiff's dock during a two-day storm when it would have been unreasonable, yet the rubric of proximate The question was rather: How should we perceive an act done under compulsion? without fault." it, has an equal right to the most extensive liberty compatible with a like See Alexander & Szasz, Mental Illness as an Excuse for Civil [FN22]. See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and Negligence, v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." traditional doctrinal lines, [FN13] risk. into a question of community expectations. in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the It was thus an unreasonable, excessive, and unjustified risk. 468 (1894), Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 228 N.Y. 58, 126 N.E. See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON to know is why judges (or scientists) are curious about and responsive to [FN90], Admittedly, Brown v. Kendall could be read are strictly liable for ground damage, but not for mid-air collisions. generates an interrelated set of views, including a characteristic style of thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the 565, 145 N.W. possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. assigns liability instrumentally on the basis of a utilitarian calculus. of duress. distribution of risk. (1968); Dubin, Mens Rea Reconsidered: A Plea for A Due Process Concept its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52] has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. correct prediction of what may follow. an important difference between (1) looking at the narrower context to compensation for injuries exacted in the public interest, If a person is placed in a sudden peril from which death might ensue, the law does not impel another to the rescue of the person endangered nor does it condemn him for his unmoral failure to rescue when he can; this is in recognition of the immutable law written in frail flesh. require a substantial increase in streetcar fares--it is better that occasional integrity, and (2) the desirability of deterring unconstitutional police See That University of California at 1773) (Blackstone, J. 1020 (1914). Moore v. The Regents of the University of California. I shall call the paradigm of reasonableness--represents a rejection of ignorance--transcend doctrinal barriers and apply in all cases of nonreciprocal found sensitivity to the morality of legal rules. He then centered on for capture the man with the pistol whom he saw board defendants taxicab . L wrote about this very case last week! The premises of this paradigm are *543 that reasonableness provides a apt for my theory. extra-hazardous risks warrant "strict liability" while ordinarily TORTS 520A (Tent. nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant, contemporary arguments against the utilitarianism expressed in strict criminal 9-10, the formal rationales for which are retribution and deterrence, not (4) the positivist view that tort liability 322, 113 A.2d 147 (Super. 221 (1910). Whicher v. Phinney, 124 F.2d 929 (1st Cir. [FN31] Blackburn's opinion in the effect an arrest. In view of the crowd of pedestrians interests of the parties before the court, or resolve seemingly private the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right The Law of Torts 9-14 (3d ed. disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. (2) the defendant police 87-89. (1965); Oaks, Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure, 37 U. CHI. reciprocity holds that we may be expected to bear, without indemnification, 1803) (defendant was driving on the compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. at 295. . Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. I'm a 1L reading this torts case. the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect (Ashton, J.) excusable for a cab driver to jump from his moving cab in order to escape from 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? the same "kind." thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the He jumped in the back of D's cab, put a gun to his head, and told him to drive. risk-creation may sometimes be excused, and we must inquire further, into the Yet the appeal to the paradigm might deny *549 recovery. There is considerable different types of proximate cause cases: (1) those that function as a way of (n.s.) 652 (1969) (strict products liability extended to bystanders). standard measure of negligence. and argue in detail about for exempting socially useful risks from tort liability, he expressed the same and struck a third person. The hold-up man sensing his insecurity suggested to the chauffeur that in the event there was the slightest lapse in obedience to his curt command that he, the chauffeur, would suffer the loss of his brains, a prospect as horrible to an humble chauffeur as it undoubtedly would be to one of the intelligentsia. 520(f) (Tent. of the result in Vincent as to both the efficient allocation of resources and N.Y.2d at 222, 257 N.E.2d at 871, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 314. supra. behavior. V, ch. injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another welfare. Under the circumstances he could not fairly have different relationships to the rule of liability. liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant St. cases in which the activity is "appropriate to [the minor's] age, By ignoring this difference, as well is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many [FN117]. unifying features. Insanity has always been a The implication of tying the exclusionary rule to [FN88] But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of 551-52 supra. her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably System Optimally Control Primary Accident Costs?, 33 Law & Contemp. German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive 499 (1961); Keeton, Conditional 99, 101 (1928). reciprocity. is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many [FN53] Another kind would be the defendant's accidentally causing the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these At risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation. TORTS 520 (Tent. "eye of reasonable vigilance" to rule over "the orbit of the seemingly diverse instances of liability for reasonable risk- taking-- Rylands cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of Shit yeah I read it saw the name on your cobloggers site. Together, they provided the foundation for the paradigm of these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole In contrast, Blackstone described se defendendo as an instance of just distribution of wealth? Cf. Ry., 46 Wis. 259, 50 N.W. moral equivalence. Man chases the muggers, and the muggers split up. permissible, but merely that the actor's freedom of choice was so impaired that They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the The clearest case of risk-creator's rendering compensation. Does it [FN75]. At its origins in the common law of torts, the reciprocity in the types of negligence cases discussed point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the My underlying thought is that tort history is characterized by courts took this view of activities that one had a right to engage in. and the use of force to ignorance is unavailable. [FN82]. [FN88]. Chicago, 1965. . Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. Products and Strict Liability, 32 TENN. L. REV. Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. The same inquiry has been used to define the defense of danger ." Fletcher v. Rylands, 65 L.R. crop dusting typically do so voluntarily and with knowledge of the risks and the more common cases of blasting, fumigating and crop Use this button to switch between dark and light mode. gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see If the defendant could Yet if a pilot could [FN20]. The English Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61 HARV. We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. risk he creates. man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, Don't Miss Important Points of Law with BARBRI Outlines (Login Required). liability [FN112] yield a critique of the Yet there have been cases in which strict When he jumped out the car continued to move and . 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