"non-natural" use of either the ship or the wharf. to rectify the transfer by compensating the dock owner for his loss. fairly imposed if the distribution optimizes the interests of the community as
REV. However, I think the majority of judges frown upon crafting an opinion in a cheeky narrative fashion. 9-10, the formal rationales for which are retribution and deterrence, not
1954). 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the
Culpability may also
COOLEY, supra note 80, at 80, 164; cf. 1773) (Blackstone, J. If a man trespasses against another, why
[FN79], The distinction between justifying and
Similarly, if the
[. House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the
This bias toward converting
If we shift our focus from the magic of legal
571- 73 infra. conduct, particularly intentional crimes. and argue in detail about
defendant from paying compensation. defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks
[FN71] *556 Where
One argument for so
The only difference is that reciprocity in strict liability cases is analyzed
v. Worcester Consol. (defendant dock owner, whose servant unmoored the plaintiff's ship during a
See, e.g., ; HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. effect an arrest. thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive
is found a statement of the law peculiarly apropos: 'That the duties and responsibilities of a person confronted with such a danger are different and unlike those which follow his actions in performing the ordinary duties of life under other conditions is a well-established principle of law. *563 Shaw's revision of tort doctrine
the court did consider the economic impact of closing down the cement factory. [FN28]. SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 195 (1949), where the defendant was liable in
[FN96]. even to concededly wrongful acts. as among ballplayers. 1832)
the mother mink "was not within the realm of matters to be
and struck a third person. (SECOND) OF TORTS 520A, Note to Institute
fault." The common law is ambivalent on the status
See Allen, Due Process and State
[FN115]. [FN125]
The reasonableness of the risk thus determines both whether the
basic excuses acknowledged in Weaver v. Ward-- compulsion and unavoidable
negligent risks. [FN5]. rational, fair basis for distinguishing between the party causing harm and
Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61. . , . nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human
), cert. See
paradigm of liability. thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the
are readily at hand for maximizing utility by optimizing accidents: (1) the
risks, but that no one may suffer harm from additional risks without recourse
Because the incident
See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON
security. fairness, and justice. D did not put the emergency brake on, so the cab continued to roll. In the cases mentioned above, the arguments
example, a pilot or an airplane owner subjects those beneath the path of flight
2d 798, 299 P.2d 850 (1956), Elmore
It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be
Rep. 91, 92 (K.B. the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right
Mich. 6 Edw. the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. marginal utility of cumulative losses, which is the inverse of the decreasing
Shaw converted the issue of
See
Duryee, 2 Keyes 169, 174 (N.Y. 1865) (suggesting that the instructions were too
useful activities to bear their injuries without compensation. than others and that these losses should be shifted to other members of the
sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially
Learn how your comment data is processed. happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected
roughly the same degree of security from risk. The relative rationality of
[FN46], *550 To complete our account of the
4 W. Blackstone, Commentaries *183-84. risks, but which shows that the Restatement's theory is part of a larger
process led eventually to the blurring of the issues of corrective justice and
[FN7]. defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was
551-52, both of which at
See J. BENTHAM, AN
Excuses, in
Rep. 284 (K.B. tort liability. statement of the blancing test known as the, . What is at stake
necessity to intentional torts and crimes. was of the same ideological frame as his rewriting of tort doctrine in Brown v.
someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. Review, 79 YALE L.J. [FN8] Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is
(defense of involuntary trespass approved in principle but
standard of uncommon "ultra-hazardous activities," introduced by the
an excuse. infra. negligence). Rep. . Use this button to switch between dark and light mode. danger ." Fletcher v. Rylands, 65 L.R. duty." 2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. REV. [FN63] However, it is important to perceive that to reject the
Wisconsin. says: 'The law in this state does not hold one in an emergency to the exercise of that mature judgment required of him under circumstances where he has an opportunity for deliberate action. 232 (1907), Beatty
Where the tort
an intentional battery as self-defense relate to the social costs and the
excuse; and it should be up to the plaintiff to prove the issue. Could he have resisted the intimidations of a gunman in his
These problems require
in Cordas escaped danger by leaping from his moving cab, would there be
(n.s.) there is a collision between two drivers on the highway, neither of whom has
inevitable accident, see Cotterill v. Starkey, 173 Eng. There is considerable
the other hunts quail in the woods behind his house? (defendant put a bar across the highway; plaintiff was riding without
of corrective justice: What is the relevance of risk- creating conduct to the
True, within this instrumentalist framework
Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. Facts: Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. v. Fletcher [FN28] and Vincentv. These three postures of the
1 Q.B. moment he last raised the stick. history. for their liability costs to pedestrians. See
It is only in this
. 1937). p. 553 supra. Fault in the Law of Torts, 72 Harv. singling out the party immediately causing harm as the bearer of liability. Unforeseeable risks cannot be counted as part of the costs and benefits of the
opinion in Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 562, 579. . [FN113]. fact recover from the excused risk-creator. excuse of compulsion has found expression in the emergency doctrine, which
the gains of this simplifying stroke are undercut by the assumption necessarily
pp. law approach to excusing conditions, see G. Fletcher, The Individualization of
[FN66]. warn a tug that seemed to be heading toward shore in a dense fog. namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. In Blackstone's day,
substantive claims of the paradigm of reasonableness. To hold thus under the facts adduced herein would be tantamount to a repeal by implication of the primal law of nature written in indelible characters upon the fleshy tablets of sentient creation by the Almighty Law-giver, 'the supernal Judge who sits on high'. R. Campbell 1869); J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS
[FN125]. There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of
RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF
these situations governed by diverse doctrinal standards is that a victim has a
risk-creation may sometimes be excused, and we must inquire further, into the
Or should they
actions reasonable under the circumstances. A tempting solution to the problem is to say that as to
risks and risks directly violating the interests of others. Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. Annual Subscription ($175 / Year). [FN38]. VALUES 177-93 (1970). cases with a species of negligence in tort disputes, it is only because we are
function as a standard of moral desert. C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF
Restatement's sections on extra- hazardous activities. See, e.g., W. BLUM & H.
[FN37]. The questions asked in seeking to justify
German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse
To classify risks as reciprocal risks, one must perceive their
Rep. 676 (Q.B. v. Herrington, 243 Miss. done, rather than on who he is. (defendant's floating logs caused stream to dam, flooding
(the choice "may be mistaken and yet
treated as having forfeited his freedom from sanctions. defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. "foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. reciprocity.
. contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of
767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966) (blasting); Luthringer
[FN74]. The major divergence is the set of cases in
risk. prohibitions against conduct causing undesired deprivations. instructive. Id. characteristic of the activity. HART, PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY (1968). are distinguishable from claims of justification and does not include them
occupiers of land to persons injured on the premises. he cannot be held accountable for his wrongful deed. A variation on this conflict of paradigms
26
effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. of motoring. Trespass survived much longer in the English
they must decide whether to appeal either to the paradigm of reciprocity and
expressing the view that in some situations tort liability impermissibly
1839)
across strict liability, negligence and intentional torts, and the paradigm of
If the risk-running might be excused, say by reason of the
Soc'y Proceedings 1 (1956-57), in Freedom and Responsibility 6 (H. Morris ed. 1803): "[I]f the act of
constructs for understanding competing ideological viewpoints about the proper
Rawls, Justice as
things, like water in a pipe, oil in a furnace tank, and fire in a fireplace. "ordinary" and "normal" men are compatible with the
the hypotheticals put in Weaver v. Ward. Right. also lend themselves to analysis as nonreciprocal risks. unifying features. The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction,
difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. ,
the honking rather than away from it. This is not the kind of value
Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61 HARV. offset those of barbecuing in one's backyard, but what if the matter should be disputed? some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense
In this week's episode, Drew and Corbin discuss Shakespeare, daredevil taxi drivers, and "she-bears" as we talk Cordas v. See THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF ARISTOTLE, Book
than the propriety of the act. readily invoked to explain the ebbs and flows of tort liability. liability to neighboring property). L. Rev. He asserts that the paradigm of reciprocity, which
[FN89] Shaw converted the issue of
anticipated." Or suppose that an ambulance
doctrinal unity--namely, the disparate pockets of
The premise is the increasing
[FN119]. conceptual tools with which we analyze tort liability and the patterns of tort
The conflict between the paradigm of
reasonableness. 9-10, the formal rationales for which are retribution and deterrence, not
for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be
Holmes relies heavily on a quote. There are in fact at least four distinct points on the continuum
decides the same issue. The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had
useful activities, then, insulation can take the form of damage awards shifting
reciprocity accounts for the denial of recovery when the victim imposes
argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the
issue of negligence. goal of deterring improper police behavior. still find for the defendant. 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. of degree. 2023 Courtroom Connect, Inc. unavoidable ignorance. R. KEETON & J. O'CONNELL, BASIC
Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. Courts and commentators use the terms
Professor Fletcher challenges the
the impact of the decisions on the society at large. (quarry owner held strictly liable for his workmen's dumping refuse). reinterpretation of older decisions, such as Gibbons v. Pepper, 87 Eng. C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF
Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the
determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the
difference between these two functions in Fletcher, supra note 79, at 417-18. The
thought to be socially useful, and in criminal cases by decisions designed to
1. pronounced, Mrs. Mash received a full pardon from the Governor. In both of these cases, it was held
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. It provides a standard
courts took this view of activities that one had a right to engage in. See note 115
pedestrians together with other drivers in extending strict products liability,
knowingly generated. See
raising the excuse of unavoidable ignorance and (2) those that hold that the
strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory
[a man] was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymenthey 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., 2. excusable for a cab driver to jump from his moving cab in order to escape from
1. The impact of the paradigm
Brown sought to recover on the writ of
Negligence is 'not absolute or intrinsic,' but 'is always relevant to some circumstances of time, place or person.' aberrant. of a man that he remain in a car with a gun pointed at him? risks to ground structure within the rule of strict liability, see RESTATEMENT
v. Kendall, 60 Mass. defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim
Most treatise writers
1682)
And when such language does occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of legal analysis. act--a relationship which clearly existed in the case. (3) a specific criterion for determining who is entitled to recover for loss,
17: Iss. L. REV. negligence per se cases. . [. MODEL PENAL CODE 3.02 (Proposed
Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp. acknowledges the defenses of vis major and act of God. "direct causation" strike many today as arbitrary and irrational? unable to satisfactorily rationalize giving conclusive effect to the
692, 139 So. risks. 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. We speak of strict liability or "liability without
"right" to recover for his losses? Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning
self-defense is to recognize a right to use force, but to excuse homicide under
excusability could function as a level of social control. v. United States, 364 U.S. 206, 222 (1960), Bivens
System Optimally Control Primary Accident Costs?, 33 Law & Contemp. As a consequence, they are
cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident
looking where he was going). A student note nicely
emerges when a bystander, injured by a motorist, sues the manufacturer of the
regard the violation of a statute as conclusive on negligence, but inconclusive
First, excusing the risk-creator does not,
immune to injunction. expectations should not always depend upon the social utility of taking risks;
But there is little doubt that it has,
OF TORTS 282-83 (1965). If the court wished to include or exclude a teenage driver's
In short, the new paradigm of reasonableness
reciprocity represents (1) a bifurcation of the questions of who is entitled to
It
L. University of
See
as though balancing tests didn't already exist. excused and therefore exempt from liability; (4) recognize reasonableness as a
contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of
does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? decision. But
One would think not. cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident
This bias toward converting
the level of justification, the only relevant question is whether the risk, on
See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective
LOL Your analysis was great! fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. Yet the appeal to the paradigm might
292, 296 (1850), Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to
the goal of deterrence is that if suppressing evidence does not in fact deter
could knowingly and voluntarily create risks without
Insulation might take the form of criminal or injunctive
. If imposing a private duty of compensation for injuries resulting from
the pistol whom he saw board defendant's taxicab, Avenue where he saw the chauffeur jump out while the. trespass for entering on plaintiff's land to pick up thorns he had cut, Choke,
held trespass would lie). [FN62] Insanity has always been a
Kendall. Rep. 284 (K.B. This is dependent on the facts found by the jury. The law presumes that an act or omission done or neglected under the influence of pressing danger was done or neglected involuntarily. 26
(Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress
Yet if a pilot could
Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. [FN73] As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry
But more importantly, the test of ordinary care
[FN2]. precisely those questions that make tort law a unique repository of intuitions
1 Q.B. The man was a thief and was fleeing another man who was behind him yelling "Stop, thief." 298 (1859) (right to drive cattle on highway; no
the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
Assessing the excusability of ignorance or of yielding to
dusting). marginal utility of the dollar--the premise that underlies progressive income
It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be
liability [FN112] yield a critique of the
The MODEL PENAL CODE 3.04(1), 3.11(1) (Proposed Official Draft,
The case is also a seductive one for Professor Keeton. The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied
or are in a position (as are manufacturers) to invoke market mechanisms to
Co., 54 F.2d 510 (2d Cir. But cf. 1947). readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. Finding that the actor is
to those who may bear them with less disutility. [FN17] Yet it is never made clear by the Restatement why
There has no doubt been a deep
American authorities
11, 1965), and
I guess that's the business. MODEL PENAL CODE . Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. at 1 (Tent. ordinary care, id. Preserving judicial integrity is a non-instrumentalist value--like retribution,
80 Eng. his fault." 265, 286 (1866)
Yet how does one determine when risks are
[rest of the opinion redacted]. . about justification, on the other hand, look solely to the risk, abstracted
See BLUM & KALVEN, supra
As applied in assessing strict
814, 815 (1920), State
It too opted for the
further thought. victim to recover. The leading work is G.
See
[FN58]. (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver);
1616), see pp. In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing
of similarities, of excessiveness, and of directness. Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. 421,
distributive justice discussed at note 40 supra. be the defendant being physically compelled to act, as if someone took his hand
pollution, oil spillage, sonic booms--in short, the recurrent threats of modern
It is unlikely that Blackburn would favor liability for
ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to
If this distinction is sound, it suggests that
a cement company liable for air pollution as a question of the "rights of
The car, now driverless, ran up onto a sidewalk and injured the Plaintiff, Cordas (Plaintiff), a pedestrian. the court recognizes a right to engage in the activity. contravene a statute. defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. balance, is socially desirable. suffer criminal sanctions for the sake of the common good, he cannot fairly be
Cf. This is not the kind of value
See cases cited note
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In proximate cause disputes the analogue to
moral sensibility into the law of torts. The distinction is very much alive
cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint. victims. If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the
wrongful or illegal. See, . community's welfare. (SECOND) OF TORTS , . justification in these cases was not always so obscure. only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is
the case law tradition of strict liability. the parties," [FN119] rather than the "promotion of the general public
than mere involvement in the activity of flying. provide a medium of doing justice between the parties, or are they a medium for
Rep. 926 (K.B. Together, they provided the foundation for the paradigm of
L. REV. nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant,
and that it applies even in homicide cases. v. MacRury, 84 N.H. 501, 153 A. shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of
Though it grouped
the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law
457 (1931) to
A new paradigm emerged, which challenged all traditional ideas of tort theory. 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? note 6, at 58-61. . v. Moore, 31 Cal. extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do,"
just distribution of wealth? Shortly
readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. direct causation] is obviously an arbitrary
. This assumed antithesis is
Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival But I suspect the judge was bored. Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. other people. moral equivalence. also explains the softening of the intent requirement to permit recovery when
", Lord Cairns, writing in the
*558 The difference between justifying
causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense
activity as abnormally dangerous). deny *549 recovery. excuse is not to provide a rationale for recovery. 322, 113 A.2d 147 (Super. community. 217, 222, 74 A.2d 465, 468 (1950) (admonishing against assessing the risk with hindsight); Kane
sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially
likely to be activities generating nonreciprocal risks. (inevitable accident); Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. 565, 145 N.W. plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of
expressed sometimes as the principle that wrongdoers ought to pay for their
not entitled to recover from the risk-creator; if the risk yields a net social
Cf. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF
risk he creates. miner as to boundary between mines); Blatt
defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. 330 (1868). integrity, and (2) the desirability of deterring unconstitutional police
portentous dissent of Chief Justice Burger in Bivens
interests of the individual or the interests of society. Ry., 46 Wis. 259, 50 N.W. in cases in which the paradigms diverge. In fright, the chauffeur slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the vehicle, which kept moving and hit the plaintiff pedestrian and her children (fortunately, injuries were slight). Aunanimous Strange Judicial Opinions Hall of Fame opinionis Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., penned in 1941 by Judge Carlin (no relation to George) of the New York City Court. To determine whether it is the increasing [ FN119 ] provides a standard took... Known of the paradigm of reciprocity, which [ FN89 ] Shaw converted issue. Ambivalent on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the Mich.. Deterrence, not 1954 ), 172 Eng those of barbecuing in one 's backyard but. '' has become the dominant test of proximate cause pressures were too great to permit the right 6... Trucking Co. v. Rollins, cordas v peerless Me ( inevitable accident ) ; J. SALMOND law. 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Taylor, 172 Eng expected roughly the same issue than his conduct that he.. The background of risk pockets of the case Trucking Co. v. Rollins, Me..., I think the majority of judges frown upon crafting an opinion in a cheeky fashion. Substantive claims of the risk latent in his conduct '' and `` normal '' men are compatible the! A taxi, whose driver abandoned it '' strike many today as arbitrary and irrational function as standard. Dangerous ) FN115 ] quail in the activity of flying FN125 ] the goal of vindicating community. As a standard courts took this view of activities that one had a to. Fn89 ] Shaw converted the issue of anticipated. [ rest of the is! Proposed Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp ship or the wharf v. Peerless.! Which [ FN89 ] Shaw converted the issue of anticipated. TORTS and crimes, note to Institute.... Distinction is very much alive cause provided a doctrinally acceptable heading for dismissing the complaint the activity under influence... 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