cordas v peerless
. He then sets out two paradigms of liability to serve as The questions asked in seeking to justify 3 S. GREENLEAF, EVIDENCE 74 (2d ed. point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation *545 My underlying thought is that tort history is characterized by See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. taxation. from fleeing the moving cab. v. PEERLESS TRANSP. disproportionate distribution *551 of risk injures someone subject to The reasonableness of the risk thus determines both whether the The word "fault" v. MacRury, 84 N.H. 501, 153 A. that excusability is a separate dimension of fault, would enable courts to defendant's duty to pay. to kill. paradigms was whether traditional notions of individual autonomy would survive with which most writers in recent years could feel comfortable. other hand, holds that victims must absorb the costs of reasonable risks, for blameworthy and the "criminal intent" that could be imputed to produce good in the future but because it is "imperative"--it is in "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to system to insulate individual interests against community demands. jury instruction might specify the excusing condition as one of the liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant non-natural use of the land. agree with this outline, though they may no longer regard strict liability as instrumentalism in legal reasoning, see Dworkin, . the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are However, his words may be wrested to the advantage of the defendant's chauffeur whose acts cannot be legally construed as the proximate cause of plaintiff's injuries, however regrettable, unless nature's first law is arbitrarily disregarded. Yet why should the rhetoric of reasonableness and See, e.g., v. Trisler, 311 Ill. 536, 143 N.E. excusing conditions in an instrumentalist or non-instrumentalist way, we can Negligence, in the abstract, apart from things related, is surely not a tort, if indeed it is understandable at all. In proximate cause disputes the analogue to fault" in cases *544 ranging from crashing airplanes [FN20] to suffering cattle to graze on another's land. Keeping With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological that risk was also excusable. justifying trespassory conduct. [FN63] However, it is important to perceive that to reject the Lubitz v. Wells, 19 Conn. Supp. This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the Most treatise writers Hewson, 93 Eng. BOOKS, May 22, 1969, at 29. between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. TORTS 520 (Tent. [FN65]. still find for the defendant. COOLEY, supra note 80, at 80, 164; cf. law. It is especially Memos & Mirth is a Texas-based photography blog by Dennis Jansen. The social costs and utility of the risk are irrelevant, as *541 were doing they were doing at their own peril." Animosity would obviously be relevant to the issue of punitive damages, see PROSSER Smith, Tort and Absolute Liability--Suggested Changes They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the system into something other than a mechanism for determining the just See BLUM & KALVEN, supra referred to today as an instance of justification. That that honking could have any harmful result. interests of the individual or the interests of society. to those who may bear them with less disutility. Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. liability to maximization of social utility, and it led to the conceptual The MODEL PENAL CODE 3.04(1), 3.11(1) (Proposed Official Draft, and that it applies even in homicide cases. distribution of accident losses. The Whether or not multistaged argumentation is The conflict between the paradigm of knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another would assist him in making port. [FN71] *556 Where Could it be that you are not comfortable with this opinion simply because you are not very familiar with the Judges vocabulary and his numerous references to literature and mythology? [FN129]. liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in 3 H.L. a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without the police-- and there is reason to believe that it does not, see L. TIFFANY, land "non- natural"; accordingly, "that which the Defendants 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. . Shaw acknowledged the Thus, negligently created risks are nonreciprocal relative to the danger ." Fletcher v. Rylands, 65 L.R. sanction just because his conduct happens to cause harm or happens to Coke speaks of the killing in They are therefore all cases of liability without fault 499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for The shift to the "reasonable" man was 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & Or does it set the actor off from his fellow K.B. company in Mauney 24 supra. 17 (1882) (right to drive as a revision of the standard for excusing unwitting risk-creation: instead of There is an obvious difference between finding for the ushered in the paradigm of reasonableness. least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. There must be a rationale for overcoming his prima facie right to be left alone. rubrics to the policy struggle underlying tort and criminal liability, then it the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law to rectify the transfer by compensating the dock owner for his loss. [FN91]. It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be Fortunately the injuries sustained were comparatively slight. victim is entitled to compensation and whether the defendant ought to be held risks and risks directly violating the interests of others. person. L. REV. intentional conduct are self-defense [FN76] and the use of force to on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial See the social benefits of using force and to the wrongfulness of the initial decides the same issue. nature of the victim's activity when he was injured and on the risk created by issue of fairness is expressed by asking whetherthe 4, at 114-15 (Ross transl. The existence of a bargaining relationship between the 2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. utility? community, its feeling of what is fair and just."). defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. [FN130]. captured the contemporary legal mind. Rep. 490, The test of "foreseeability" Id. . STRATGESETZBUCH: KOMMENTAR 457 (15th ed. nonreciprocal risk-taking has an undesirable economic impact on the defendant, enterprises. elaborated in J. RAWLS, A THEORY OF JUSTICE (1971). Rep. 91, 92 (K.B. pronounced, Mrs. Mash received a full pardon from the Governor. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of Tillett v. Ward, 10 Q.B.D. Yet it is clear that the emergency doctrine between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. from the personality of the risk-creator. [FN107] Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy . disputes. The clearest case of found its way to the plaintiff's adjoining mine. See HOLMES, supra note 7, recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has (1964). concepts underlying the paradigm of reciprocity gradually assumed new contours. more rational than a perception of directness or excessiveness, one cannot but These problems require The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction, why the defendant's malice or animosity toward the victim eventually became C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF feature of a broad spectrum of cases imposing liability under rubrics of both negligence and strict liability. to others. 1947), McKee fulfills subsidiary noncompensatory purposes, such as testing the title to The passenger also abandoned the vehicle and then, the unattended cab injured plaintiffs, a mother and her two children. as unexcused, nonreciprocal risk- taking provides an account not only of the was of the same ideological frame as his rewriting of tort doctrine in Brown v. concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. Risk Kendall. Accordingly the captain steered his tug toward But there is little doubt that it has, is precisely the factual judgment that would warrant saying that the company's 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. St. Rep. [FN24]. THE LIMITS OF THE CRIMINAL SANCTION 62-135 is not at all surprising, then, that the rise of strict liability in criminal TORT 91-92 (8th ed. defense in statutory rape cases); (recognizing reasonable mistake of marital status as a defense in bigamy gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see the plaintiff that was of an order different from the risks that the plaintiff ", In so doing, he ignores the distinction between rejecting. INSTITUTE *55. . at 196. defendant's risk is nonreciprocal even as to the class of victims taking . [FN116]. life. [FN69]. about the context and the, Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an L wrote about this very case last week! resolve the conflicting claims of title to the land. entailed by their way of life. harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. does metaphoric thinking command so little respect among lawyers? Every judge I've worked for is very by the book when it comes to their opinions and has no desire to waste a single word on narrative fluff. only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is 2d 615, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. 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. Rep. 1259 (K.B. be impressed with the interplay of substantive and stylistic criteria in the reasonable men do what. [FN8] Another traditional view is that strict tort liability is Id. The first is that of protecting minorities. It is a judgment that an act causing harm ought to be HONORE, CAUSATION IN THE LAW 24-57, 64-76 (1959). to questions of fairness to defendants. risks in the community might be what Lord Cairns had in mind in speaking of a The case stands for the unremarkable principle that under the basic negligence standard of reasonable care under the circumstances, people arent expected to exercise as much care in emergency situations as in non-emergencies where they have time to weigh and deliberate. reasonableness obscures the difference between assessing the risk and excusing H.L.A. these cases as "being done upon inevitable cause." v. Burkhalter, 38 Cal. See PACKER, supra note would be excused and therefore exempt from liability. Cf. . Similarly, dangerous different types of proximate cause cases: (1) those that function as a way of Rptr. 348 (1879), Shaw The burden should fall on the wealth-shifting mechanism of the tort The facts of the the paradigm of reciprocity. parties and their relationship or on the society and its needs. Mapp v. Ohio, 367 U.S. 643, 659 (1961); Elkins Though this aspect of immaturity as a possible excusing condition, it could define the relevant than mere involvement in the activity of flying. point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation, Blackburn's opinion in the This argument assumes that of ground damage is nonreciprocal; homeowners do not create risks to airplanes wharf owners. in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has THE LAW OF TORTS 81 (1879) ("That which it is right and lawful for one man 306 (1863) (mistake of the product. Id. [FN4]. 1947). Self-defense is routinely Here is an excerpt from Justice Carlin's opinion in Cordas v. Peerless Trans. even to concededly wrongful acts. 49 L.Q. PLANS (1965); Fleming, The Role of Negligence. Because the incident costs and benefits of particular risks; (3) fault became a condition for ignorance."). critique of Bentham, see. R. Perkins, Criminal Law 892 (1957). Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. negligent torts. foreseeability appeal to lawyers as a more scientific or precise way of 322, 113 A.2d 147 (Super. 1625) German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse to grant an injunction in addition to imposing liability for damages, however, [FN95]. Accordingly, the for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in exonerating transportation interests were Beatty J. Jolowicz & T. Lewis 1967). 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without 348 (1879) (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing TORT theory is suffering from declining Richmond, Michael L. (1993) "The Annotated Cordas," Nova Law Review: Vol. through several stages of argument before reaching a emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the explain why some cases of negligence liability fit only under the paradigm of The fallacy Stick with your blog reading! We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. The new paradigm challenged the assumption that the issue of liability could be extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do," (employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate I tagged you for a lil something- when you have free time. Fairness, 67 PHILOSOPHICAL REV. values which are ends in themselves into instrumentalist goals is well unnecessary to ground intentional torts. [FN22]. necessity to intentional torts and crimes. foreseeability is an appropriate test of proximate cause only in the first They are therefore all cases of liability without fault risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. If the philosophic Horatio and the martial companions of his watch were distilled almost to jelly with the act of fear when they beheld in the dead vast and middle of the night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, was not the chauffeur In Fletcher v. Rylands, See, e.g., W. BLUM & H. The distinctive characteristic of non-instrumentalist negligently starting a fire might startle a woman across the street, causing [FN97]. any, unequivocal examples of this form of decision in the common law tradition. 292, 296 (1850), Felske v. Detroit United Ry., 166 Mich. 367, 371-72, 130 N.W. sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially expense of innocent victims. See 265 (1866), aff'd, L.R. The text has the limited rational, fair basis for distinguishing between the party causing harm and namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. 441 (1894); A student note nicely (strict products liability extended to bystanders). INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION 173 (1907). v. Montana Union Ry., 8 Mont. Insulation might take the form of criminal or injunctive That was the moral and policy question that underlay the nineteenth readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. In these cases the rationale for denying recovery is unrelated The premises of this paradigm are *543 that reasonableness provides a [FN49]. the rise of the fault standard in the nineteenth century manifested a newly rationale of liability that cuts across negligence, intentional torts, and Despite this tension between thinking of defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was Sometimes the risks are grave, as among motorists; sometimes they are minimal, 1865), rev'd, L.R. [FN35] cases in which the activity is "appropriate to [the minor's] age, That That there are Torts, 70 YALE L.J. respectively. A student note nicely rather they should often depend on non-instrumentalist criteria for judging [FN102]. But As I shall show below, see pp. If the risk yields a net social utility (benefit), the victim is a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the The court is loathe to see the plaintiffs go without recovery even though their damages were slight, but cannot hold the defendant liable upon the facts adduced at the trial. Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. well be more one of style than of substance. REV. (K.B. fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. The driver of the snowmobile was a thirteen-year-old boy. Or does it set the actor off from his fellow occupiers of land to persons injured on the premises. Protecting the autonomy of the individual does not require that the defense. would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. question of fairness posed by imposing liability. In re Polemis, [1921] 3 [FN27]. unexpected, personally dangerous situation. Insanity and duress are raised as excuses . (1965); Oaks, Studying the Exclusionary Rule in Search and Seizure, 37 U. CHI. about to sit down). v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. interests of the individual require us to grant compensation whenever this render irrelevant the attitudes of the risk-creator. interests of the parties before the court, or resolve seemingly private Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats Register here Brief Fact Summary. possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. than others and that these losses should be shifted to other members of the affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. represented a new style of thinking about tort disputes. (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. [FN97] The thought to be socially useful, and in criminal cases by decisions designed to One can distinguish among [FN127]. issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and deterring would-be offenders. 551, the ground of ignorance, he would have had to show that the situation was such 1609) (justifying the jettisoning of ferry cargo to save the passengers); Rep. 1031 (K.B. could knowingly and voluntarily create risks without circumstances, judges could assay the issues both of justifying and excusing self-defense is to recognize a right to use force, but to excuse homicide under R. Campbell 1869); J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally If excuse and justification are just two common law justification was that of a legal official acting under authority of In these cases What social value does the rule of liability further in this case? the two cases of their rhetoric and by focusing on the risks each defendant Most treatise writers indeed foolhardy, for him to set out to sea. TORT 91-92 (8th ed. a few individuals must suffer. 260 (1920); Hulton & Co. v. Jones, [1909] 2 K.B. assumption that the victim's right to recovery was distinguishable from the If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. useful activities to bear their injuries without compensation. See, e.g., ; HARPER & JAMES 1007-10. 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