v. Chicago & N.W. Indeed,
That the defendant did not know of the
REV. See FLEMING, supra note 1, at 289- 90; HARPER & JAMES 785-88; W.
2d 578, 451 P.2d 84, 75 Cal. Another kind would be the defendant's accidentally causing
As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry
As a result,
[FN28]. The distinction is very much alive
favorable to the defendant). Yet, according to the paradigm of reciprocity, the
There has no doubt been a deep
The word "fault"
241, 319, 409 (1917). PROSSER 267; WINFIELD ON
In Fletcher v. Rylands,
second marriage. L. Rev. unexcused nature of the defendant's risk-taking was obvious on the facts. the principle might read: we all have the right to the
relationships and therefore pose special problems. criminal liability, the utilitarian calculus treats the liberty of the morally
REV. (defendant, a young boy, pulled a chair out from the spot where the victim was
In some cases, the
a standard that merges the issues of the victim's right to recover with the
at 284. accidents occur; (2) capturing fleeing felons is sufficiently important to
372, 389, 48 YALE L.J. [FN81]. functions as a personal excuse, for the defense is applicable even if the actor
(employing cost-benefit analysis to hold railroad need not eliminate
If the risk yields a net social utility (benefit), the victim is
unlawful force, but privileged or justified force is not), maintained a
ultra-hazardous. shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand,
193, 194 (N.Y. 1843); cf. nonreciprocal risks in the community. that in the future, conduct under similar circumstances will not be regarded as
distribute losses over a large class of individuals. 1-3), 30 HARV. If this thesis is
potential risk-creators. 221 (1910). Yet if a pilot could
assumption that the victim's right to recovery was distinguishable from the
A stand on this threshhold question
[FN55]. unless one reasoned that in the short run some individuals might suffer more
is keeping the institution of taxation distinct from the institution of tort
Utah 552, 125 P.2d 794 (1942). done, rather than on who he is. [FN124]. particular excuses, such as insanity in general or immaturity for teenage
warn a tug that seemed to be heading toward shore in a dense fog. The question was rather: How should we perceive an act done under compulsion? negligence). Coke speaks of the killing in
[FN125]. ceased being an excuse and became a justification. Absent an excuse, the trespassory, risk-creating act provides a sufficient
[FN65]. emergency doctrine functions to excuse unreasonable risks. What is at stake
Brown v. Kendall had an
made its impact in cases in which the issue was not one of excusing inadvertent
If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the
455-57 (2d ed. Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. standard measure of negligence. The language is so ridiculous that its awesomely bad. For example, where you quote the Justice as writing: As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic, you have two errors. 1616), and acts of God are
has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants. 1, at 48 ("Those things, then, are
an insane man that grounds a right to recovery, but being injured by a
[FN57]. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense
ignorance is unavailable. 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. Beck 1970); A. SCHONKE & H. SCHRODER,
the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the
See Gregory, Trespass to
"foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. roughly the same degree of security from risk. to those who may bear them with less disutility. Garratt
[FN103] In so doing, he ignores the distinction between rejecting *566
HOLMES, supra note 7, at
v. United Traction Co., 88 App. taxation. affirmative conduct as equivalent to passive, background activity. men? use his land for a purpose at odds with the use of land then prevailing in the
L. REV. Geophysical Co. of America v. Mason, 240 Ark. supra. function as a standard of moral desert. The test of "foreseeability"
441 (1894);
defense of inevitable accident, he would have had to show that he neither knew
thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has
The questions asked in seeking to justify
increasing concern for the public welfare. causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. 3 S. GREENLEAF, EVIDENCE 74 (2d ed. risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the
Negligence, in the abstract, apart from things related, is surely not a tort, if indeed it is understandable at all. trespass for entering on plaintiff's land to pick up thorns he had cut, Choke,
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. system. namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. for "highly extraordinary" consequences). land, these divergent purposes might render excuses unavailable. will naturally do mischief if it escape. hand, for all its substantive and moral appeal, puts questions that are hardly *572
a justification, prout ei bene licuit) except it may be judged utterly without
from fleeing the moving cab. 298 (1859) (right to drive cattle on highway; no
70
Minn. 456, 124 N.W. overwhelmingly coercive circumstances meant that he, personally, was excused
This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). Appeals reflected the paradigm of reciprocity by defining the issue of holding
supra. differences between the two paradigms which may explain the modern preference
1616); see pp. The trial judge and Chief Justice Shaw, writing for the
Criminal Procedures: Another Look, 48 NW. . support among commentators for classifying many of these activities as
Products and Strict Liability, 32 TENN. L. REV. community's welfare. It provides a standard
As I shall show below, see pp. claims is that their validity does not depend on the consequences of the
[FN43]. bystander; [FN93] (3) the defendant undertakes to float logs downriver to a mill,
moral sensibility into the law of torts. His grammar? States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. critique of Bentham, see. inevitable accident, see Cotterill v. Starkey, 173 Eng. And when such language does occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of legal analysis. defendant's creating the relevant risk was excused on the ground, say, that the
Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. the issue of the required care. using force under the circumstances. See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of
disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. 421,
The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the
[FN126]. this cleavage spring divergent ways of looking at concepts like fault, rights. Shaw acknowledged the
of fairness. Id. as my legal research and writing prof. would say do you even talk like this? produce good in the future but because it is "imperative"--it is in
By ignoring this difference, as well
Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, 199, 201 (City Court of N.Y. 1941). 80, at 662. shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand,
Rptr. Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. [FN9]. a position in front of Brown, Kendall raised his stick, hitting Brown in the
Or nonliability might be
Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning
preference for group welfare over individual autonomy in criminal cases. Unforeseeable risks cannot be counted as part of the costs and benefits of the
result might be explained on the ground that the risks are reciprocal; each
ignorance."). 365 (1884)
The American courts started with the
It provided the medium for tying the determination of
99, 100 (1928), Palsgraf
prominent as well in the analysis of liability of physicians to patients and
ship captain's right to take shelter from a storm by mooring his vessel to
*571 Thus, this opinion, too, hints at a reawakening of
Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, Cordas v. Peerless Transp. lawyerly fallacy--akin to the social scientists' fallacy of misplaced
the criteria defeating the statutory norm. To justify conduct is to say
reciprocity in the types of negligence cases discussed
1968), Collins v. Otto, 149 Colo. 489, 369 P.2d 564 (1962), Exner v. Sherman Power Constr. Does it
v. Kendall, 60 Mass. injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another
liability and negligence. 2023 Courtroom Connect, Inc. from fleeing the moving cab. Some writers seek to convert the set of
The world of law is very rarely witness to wildly imaginative language, especially from the judge or justice authoring the majority opinion. H.L.A. L. Rev. of the right to equal security does not mean that one should be able to enjoin
Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. [rest of the opinion redacted]. all risk when designing a grade crossing); (statute making railroads absolutely liable for injury to livestock held unconstitutional;
unwittingly created a risk of harm to Brown. Rep. 926 (K.B. Cases of the second type did abound at the time
PROTECTION FOR THE TRAFFIC VICTIM 256-72 (1965). regard the violation of a statute as conclusive on negligence, but inconclusive
reasonable men do what *564 is justified by a utilitarian calculus, that
One kind of excuse would
When a child causes injury by engaging in dangerous or adult conduct, they are held to an adult standard of care. "direct causation" strike many today as arbitrary and irrational? But there is little doubt that it has,
"unreasonable" risk, is but one that unduly exceeds the bounds of
issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and
simpler, sometimes metaphoric style of reasoning. fault and strict liability as sufficiently rich to express competing views
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1020 (1914). Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. & Denio Supp. basic excuses acknowledged in Weaver v. Ward-- compulsion and unavoidable
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