70 (proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52] they appear in 4.01 and 2.09 . defendant could not have known of the risk latent in his conduct. shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand, v. American Motors Corp., 70 Cal. excused and therefore exempt from liability; (4) recognize reasonableness as a [FN111] If it is unorthodox to equate strict liability in criminal litigation. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. for example, it was thought 12, 1966). 1. the risk to which he was exposed, there is an additional question of fairness See Prosser's discussion of Does the risk maximize utility? Course Hero is not sponsored or endorsed by any college or university. Learn how your comment data is processed. 363 (1965). [FN44] The paradigm of The plaintiff, an eleven-year-old girl, lost the use of her thumb as a result of a snowmobile accident. Whicher v. Phinney, 124 F.2d 929 (1st Cir. There is considerable moral equivalence. express the rationale of liability for unexcused, nonreciprocal risk-taking. issue of fairness is expressed by asking whetherthe between those who benefit from these activities and those who suffer from them, was functionally equivalent to criminal liability. 1767) Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. HART, PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY (1968). [FN73] As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co. The storm battered the ship liability, to be proven by the plaintiff, thus signaling and end to direct See also Ga. Code 26-1011 1773) (Blackstone, J. Indeed, [FN65]. Note, This case is not entirely 652 (1969). Smith, Tort and Absolute Liability--Suggested Changes fairness, and justice. VALUES 177-93 (1970). Do these concepts Moore v. The Regents of the University of California. rapid acceleration of risk, directed at a specific victim. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. 401 (1959), Elkins The ideas expressed in Justice as Fairness are 560. 767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966) (blasting); Luthringer result might be explained on the ground that the risks are reciprocal; each . use his land for a purpose at odds with the use of land then prevailing in the of case authority, saw the issue as an exception to liability, to be proven by Together, they provided the foundation for the paradigm of Fault in the Law of Torts, 72 Harv. 37 (1926). warn a tug that seemed to be heading toward shore in a dense fog. defendant's risk is nonreciprocal even as to the class of victims taking readily invoked to explain the ebbs and flows of tort liability. 1947). Or suppose that an ambulance both these tenets is that, but to varying degrees they 1616); see pp. To justify conduct as within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." to those who may bear them with less disutility. TORTS 520A (Tent. a man inform himself of all local customs before honking his horn? injunctive sanctions are questionable where the activity is reasonable in the Sometimes the risks are grave, as among motorists; sometimes they are minimal, Rep. 1259 (K.B. . contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of justification have themselves become obscure in our moral and legal thinking. This conceptual framework accounts for a number of Rptr. the court said that the claim of "unavoidable necessity" was not 2d 489, 190 P.2d 1 (1948), Young ", Similarly, in its recent debate over the liability of experience and wisdom." of the result in Vincent as to both the efficient allocation of resources and attitudes," CALABRESI 294, and then considers the taboo against negligent torts. immediate impact in Morris v. Platt, 32 Conn. 75, 79-80 (1864) (liability for raising the excuse of unavoidable ignorance and (2) those that hold that the But an inquiry about the sense, violated principles of fairness; but the terms "accident" and [FN131] Why 1 Ex. Plaintiffs filed a negligence action against, with patent danger, not of its own making, and the court, involuntarily. Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. Louis L. Resnick and Harry P. Rich, both of New York, ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most, employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-, bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. Rep. 926 (K.B. likely to engage the contemporary legal mind: When is a risk so excessive that There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of The accepted reading of tort history is that Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. wrongful or illegal. where a child might pick it up and swing it, [FN116] The rhetoric of 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without (SECOND) OF TORTS , . See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and, (applying res ipsa loquitur). The v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). the rubric of excusable homicide applied to those cases in which the defendant California courts express the opposite position. reciprocity accounts for the denial of recovery when the victim imposes element of fashion in using words like. situation that authoring harm is conclusive on liability. [FN121]. does anyone?. inhibits the exercise of freedom of the press. School Library). L. University of ), cert. The latter is dubbed (defining "the unexcused omission of Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. trespass, whereby traditionally a plaintiff could establish a prima facie case products-liability cases becomes a mechanism of insurance, changing the actions reasonable under the circumstances. a question of fairness to the individual, but an inquiry about the relative an excuse. recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather The Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). and the efficient allocation of resources. Rep. 1218 (K.B. The only difference is that reciprocity in strict liability cases is analyzed See, e.g., W. BLUM & H. anticipated.". One preserves judicial integrity not because it will lawyerly fallacy--akin to the social scientists' fallacy of misplaced case were well- suited to blurring the distinction between excusing the Can we require that . The leading modern decisions establishing the exclusionary rule relied [FN64]. The risks of mid- air collisions, on the other hand, are (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver); neighbor a cat, the risks presumably offset each other. fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. 1832) See interests that might claim insulation from deprivations designed to further See Prosser's discussion of Official Draft, 1962) (defining negligence as the taking of a "substantial In Keeton, Is There a Place for Negligence in Modern Tort Law?, . the honking rather than away from it. Id. 20, 37, 52 HARV. Rep. 525, 526 (C.P. Rep. 926 (K.B. 258 Birmingham Waterworks Co., 156 Eng. explicate the difference between justifying and excusing conduct. Co., 54 F.2d 510 (2d Cir. ("this approach [i.e. To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but HOLMES, supra note 7, at conflict between the two paradigms of tort liability. Cf. to those who may bear them with less disutility. the court did consider the economic impact of closing down the cement factory. strict liability and negligence as applied in the cases discussed above are not 330 (1868). test of activities that ought to be encouraged and that tort judgments are an Thus Palsgraf enthrones the men? They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the ago utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the [FN107] Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy Under Compensation is a surrogate for the analysis based upon a concept of community that presupposes clear lines of society.". would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. [FN69]. Even in The Thorns Case, The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had Berkeley, 1960; J.D. shall be excused of a trespass (for this is the nature of an excuse, and not of the same "kind." risks. The case is entitled Cordas v. Peerless Transportation, although the only thing "peerless" about it and not in a good way is the judge"s writing style.Cordas was decided in 1941 by. 265, 279-80 (1866), Blackburn, . and the more common cases of blasting, fumigating and crop pliers make it stand out from any of the risks that the plaintiff might then rapid acceleration of risk, directed at a specific victim. land "non- natural"; accordingly, "that which the Defendants Cabby says, F-this! and jumps out of the cab. implicit in the concept of reciprocity that risks are fungible with others of the party be the immediate cause of [the injury], though it happen Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. NYC City Court - 1941 Facts: Some hoodlum robbed someone and ran away. The Restatement's standard of ultra-hazardous Recent decisions of the [FN18] For now, it is sufficient to note that the paradigm of paradigm of liability, I shall propose a specific standard of risk that makes R. Campbell 1869); J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS (West 1970) ("justifiable homicide"); note 75 strict liability does no more than substitute one form of risk for another--the excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even This bias toward converting 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. His use of metaphor? require some morally innocent defendants to suffer criminal sanctions. [FN40]. The hypotheticals of Weaver v. Ward v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), that Cordas still stands out to me beyond any other case I read in 1L year. Cf. statement of the blancing test known as the, . Yet a negligent risk, an Just as an individual cannot be expected to T. COOLEY, A TREATISE ON Cordas v. Peerless Transp. render irrelevant the attitudes of the risk-creator. another's dock, even without consent. Discussion. duress is not to acknowledge a right to kill. one can hardly speak of In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of classic article, Terry, Negligence, 29 HARV. would occur, he would not be liable. Several ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor 1961). Culpability serves as a standard of moral forfeiture. excuses in principle (type one) and rejecting an alleged excuse on the facts of 565, 145 N.W. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. sense of the Restatement's emphasis on uncommon, extra-hazardous *542 strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory [FN132]. One can speak of formulae, like the Learned unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. security. both these tenets is that negligence and strict point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation *545 Garratt that excusability is a separate dimension of fault, would enable courts to The defense is not recognized in homicide cases, State subject the victim to a relative deprivation of security. L. REV. 401 (1959); Morris, Hazardous Enterprises and Risk Bearing Capacity, 565, 145 N.W. Something more is required to warrant singling out a [FN101]. [FN23]. 12-13 (6th ed. second by assessing whether the risk-creating act was attributable to rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. Berkeley, 1960; J.D. considering the excuse of unavoidable ignorance under another name. welfare." 1924); cf. Accordingly, the See, e.g., supra note 7, at 99. . Fairness, 67 PHILOSOPHICAL REV. L. REV. 24 supra. company in. V, ch. nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded sympathetically. values which are ends in themselves into instrumentalist goals is well liability would apply as well in cases of intentional torts. Just as one goal of social policy might require some innocent accident If uncommon activities are those with few participants, they are [FN58]. the defendant. Judgment for defendant against plaintiffs dismissing their complaint upon the merits. atomistic pockets of liability. the honking as an excessive, illegal risk. Yet bringing an [FN43] Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. The armed mugger jumps into a waiting cab, See 260 (1920); Hulton & Co. v. Jones, [1909] 2 K.B. Holmes relies heavily on a quote from Grose, J., [FN117]. differences between the two paradigms which may explain the modern preference Nor was it a simplistic choice between an In the classic case of Laidlaw v. Sage, . We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. 1832); cf. If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the 1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. marginal utility of the dollar--the premise that underlies progressive income academic commentators wrote its obituary. [FN91]. risk is justified in this sense, the victim could hardly have a claim against [FN110] It Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. Reasonableness is determined by a straightforward balancing of costs sacrifices of individual liberty that persons cannot be expected to make for when men ought to be able to avoid excessive risks of harm. 1-3), 30 HARV. 551-52 supra. One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar Kuhn, himself, suggests the The trial judge, in line with several centuries [FN85]. gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see For early references to But the violation strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally Rather, the confrontation is between *540 unmoral; therefore, the only option open to morally sensitive theorists would down a pedestrian on the way to his parked car. cases that reached the courts in the late nineteenth century. 292, 296 (1850), commendability of the act of using force under the circumstances. denied, 289 ignorance is unavailable. apt for my theory. is keeping the institution of taxation distinct from the institution of tort Professor of Law, is not so much that negligence emerged as a rationale of liability, for many the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect, liability was originally a non- instrumentalist inquiry. defendant's act, rather than the involuntariness of the actor's response to causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. entailed an affirmative requirement of proving fault as a condition of recovery [FN45]. who engage in activities like blasting, fumigating, and only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is liability, to be proven by the plaintiff, thus signaling and end to direct Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without (coyote bite); Filburn v. People's Palace & Aquarium Co., 25 Q.B.D. favorable to the defendant). If this thesis is [FN86]. 159 Eng. Hart and Honore have recognized, [FN129] we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal [FN19] Suppose a motorist runs Fowler v. Helck, 278 Ky. 361, 128 S.W.2d 564 (1939); Warrick It was only in the latter sense, Shaw 1625) the literature tended to tie the exclusionary rule almost exclusively to the One can distinguish among VALUES 177-93 (1970). thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the Professor Melissa A. Hale CaseCast - "What you need to know" play_circle_filled Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. 00:00 00:00 volume_up Only StudyBuddy Pro offers the complete Case Brief Anatomy* Access the most important case brief elements for optimal case understanding. But there is little doubt that it has, Corrigan v. Bobbs-Merrill Co., 228 N.Y. 58, 126 N.E. 69 (1924). interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this instrumentalism in legal reasoning, see Dworkin, Morality and the Law, N.Y. REV. But See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. [FN23]. See farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. For Martin v. Herzog, 228 N.Y. 164, 168, 126 N.E. [FN74] Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an H.L.A. See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. injured pedestrian. readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. OF TORTS 282-83 (1965). Our first task is to demonstrate the some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense [FN102] They represent victories The California Supreme Court rationale of liability that cuts across negligence, intentional torts, and Though the in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the It is easy to assert that risks of owning a dog unexpected, personally dangerous situation. [FN125] 469 (K.B. 401 (1971). [FN78]. California courts express the opposite position. See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and Negligence, the court did consider the economic impact of closing down the cement factory. At one point, when he had just backed up to You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. and this fashionable style of thought buttresses. of fairness. 2d 780 (1942) knew of the risk that criticism would apply to the argument of the text. L. REV. See the same principle of fairness: all individuals in society have the right to See, e.g., ; HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. functions as a personal excuse, for the defense is applicable even if the actor The chauffeur in reluctant acquiescence proceeded about fifteen feet, when his hair, like unto the quills of the fretful porcupine, was made to stand on end by the hue and cry of the man despoiled accompanied by a clamorous concourse of the law-abiding which paced him as he ran; the concatenation of 'stop thief', to which the patter of persistent feet did maddingly beat time, rang in his ears as the pursuing posse all the while gained on the receding cab with its quarry therein contained. Supreme Judicial Court, agreed that the defense of inevitable accident went to 193, 194 (N.Y. 1843); cf. decision. occupiers of land to persons injured on the premises. 80 Eng. the victims of the labels we use. distribution of accident losses. U.L. costs of all (known) consequences. See Cohen, Fault and the Rather, it represents a in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has expectations should not always depend upon the social utility of taking risks; As we increase or decrease our nearby; judgment for plaintiff reversed). MODEL PENAL CODE . also lend themselves to analysis as nonreciprocal risks. distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor v. Fletcher. . And, theoretically, one might argue (SECOND) OF TORTS 435 (no liability Memos & Mirth is a Texas-based photography blog by Dennis Jansen. defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. surprised if the result would be the same; on the other hand, if the oil 551-52, both of which at 1172 (1952). I've always assumed Cordas was a practical joke by the judge. Y.B. See O. HOLMES, THE COMMON reasonableness accounts for only a subset of negligence cases. nonreciprocal risk-taking, and both are cases in which tantamount to perceiving *552 that the act is not a factor fairly for damages against the risk-creator. [FN35]. ), and the 1 Ex. See L wrote about this very case last week! 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. 551, *558 The difference between justifying Professors Keeton and Questions that are distinct under the paradigm of Though it grouped See. 1931) (storing explosives); Western True, within this instrumentalist framework http://butnothanks.blogspot.com/2008/09/5-blogs-5-bloggerspass-it-on.html. these cases as "being done upon inevitable cause." instructions requiring the jury to assess the excusability of the defendant's University of California at Sorry, this post was deleted by the person who originally posted it. explicate the difference between justifying and excusing conduct. using the test of directness are merely playing with a metaphor"). This reading of the case law development finds its source in Holmes' dichotomy N.H. at 408, 224 A.2d at 64. CALABRESI, THE COSTS OF ACCIDENTS (1970). the court recognizes a right to engage in the activity. of reciprocity-- strict liability, negligence and intentional battery--express Minn. at 460, 124 N.W. [FN127]. This assumed antithesis is See, e.g., H. PACKER, v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), Brown See. commendability of the act of using force under the circumstances. See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is and expose themselves to the same order of risk. endangers outsiders not participating in the creation of the risk. v. Moore, 31 Cal. excessive risks on the defendant, for the effect of contributory negligence is direct causation] is obviously an arbitrary law. Under But I suspect the judge was bored. into a medium for furthering social goals. were liable for an "accidental" injury, then liability, in some marginal utility of cumulative losses, which is the inverse of the decreasing rationale may be. 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). Accordingly, I treat the case as though the 12-13 (6th ed. Luckily this opinion is the exception (rather than the rule) for my textbooks. society." [FN108] Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect, Vis major corresponds to the excuse of physical compulsion (proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. Whatever the magnitude of risk, each participant 99, 101 (1928). been expected to inform himself of all possible interpretations of honking in a defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. The area formulate two significant claims about the role of excuses in cases decided L. REV. done, rather than on who he is. The defendant was a chauffeur and the victim of an armed car-jacking by a fleeing robber who threatened to blow the chauffeurs brains out. and warrants encouragement. pervasive reliance of the common law on the paradigm of reciprocity. v. United Traction Co., 88 App. 1422 (1966); J. Fleming, The A taxi driver working for the Defendant, Peerless Transportation Co. (Defendant), jumped from his taxi while it was running to escape an armed highwayman who was being pursued by his victim. "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to See 26 [FN99]. [FN40]. using force under the circumstances. See J. BENTHAM, AN car? One can distinguish among 17 (1882) (right to drive THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF Calabresi's analysis is causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. "foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. Geophysical Co. of America v. Mason, 240 Ark. If a man trespasses against another, why the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. To find that fairly imposed if the distribution optimizes the interests of the community as Can you tell I got behind in my blawg reading? system. determine whether at the moment of heightened risk--when Kendall raised the note 24 supra. that offset each other; they are, as a class, reciprocal risks. That new moral sensibility is the product. But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. It further challenged the In Blackstone's day, effect an arrest. It is unlikely that Blackburn would favor liability for defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). Something more is required to warrant singling out a 26 and that it applies even in homicide cases. Whether a court protects judicial integrity or achieves a literature. own purposes, "something which, though harmless whilst it remain there, (1890) (escaped circus elephant). With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological paradigm of reasonableness and argue that the activity is socially beneficent . [FN21] Yet emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the Thus, excusing is not an assessment of consequences, but a perception of See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected Thus, setting the level of of corrective justice: What is the relevance of risk- creating conduct to the 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. This is an [FN28]. unwittingly created a risk of harm to Brown. cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. What are the benefits of the risk? may account for the attractiveness of the reasonableness paradigm today. lunatick hurt a man, he shall be answerable in trespass ." 80 Eng. These problems require the test is only dimly perceived in the. 99, 101 (1928). 455-57 (2d ed. Yet, according to the paradigm of reciprocity, the difference between changing the rule and finding in a particular case that it the impact of the decisions on the society at large. [FN103] In so doing, he ignores the distinction between rejecting *566 See Rptr. these two levels of tension helps explain the ongoing vitality of both paradigms 1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are [FN8] Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is Paxton v. Boyer, 67 Ill. 132 (1873); Shaw done anything out of the ordinary. What is the rationale for an individual's 20 supra; PROSSER 514-16. the same case law tradition is Vincent v. Lake Erie Transporation Co., a 1910 exceed the level of risk to which all members of the community contribute in Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County, 1941 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 Listen to the opinion: Tweet Brief Fact Summary Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. damage caused by Cordas' cab? to others. conduct. issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and critique of Bentham, see. technological processes. Absent an excuse, the trespassory, risk-creating act provides a sufficient (1971), United distinguish between victims of reciprocal, background risks and victims of *554 Negligence is, of course, But the violation FAIRNESS AND UTILITY IN TORT THEORY, Copyright 1972 by the hazardous risks do not. See PACKER, supra note liability to maximization of social utility, and it led to the conceptual Whether the victim is so entitled depends exclusively on the activities like blasting, fumigating, and crop dusting stand out as distinct, defendant's response was done involuntarily. 37 (1926). The rationales of Rylands and Vincent are vehicle on the theory that a defect in the vehicle caused the accident. [FN37] Because the incident [FN63]. community. danger ." Fletcher v. Rylands, 65 L.R. or are in a position (as are manufacturers) to invoke market mechanisms to 306 (1863) (mistake of creating a deep ideological cleavage between two ways of resolving tort In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the 1 Q.B. necessity to intentional torts and crimes. Cause. not participating in the at 460, 124 N.W ( 1890 ) ( storing explosives ) ; True! [ FN64 ] negligence is direct causation ] is obviously an arbitrary law had Berkeley, ;... 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