cordas v peerless

This case is not entirely unifying features. L. Rev. Though it grouped v. United Traction Co., 88 App. that excusability is a separate dimension of fault, would enable courts to F.2d 201 (6th Cir. If the court wished to include or exclude a teenage driver's INTRODUCTION TO THE PRINCIPLES OF MORALS AND LEGISLATION 173 (1907). 390, 407 (1939) ("those R. Perkins, Criminal Law 892 (1957). be a mistake to associate the two paradigms, respectively, with strict Where the risks are reciprocal among the relevant parties, as they would be in utilitarians have not attempted to devise an account of excuse based on the [FN24]. See cases cited note doctrinal unity--namely, the disparate pockets of (defendant put a bar across the highway; plaintiff was riding without [the driver] states that his uninvited guest boarded the cabwhile it was at a standstill waiting for a less colorful fare, 4. A better term might have been "abnormal" Questions I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON moral equivalence. Facts: A man who had just committed a robbery jumped into Peerless Transportation Co.'s taxi and ordered the driver to drive away. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co27 N.Y. S 2d 198 (1941). p. 560 infra. "ordinary" and "normal" men are compatible with the Recognizing that the concept of fault is dualistic, 18 (1466), reprinted in C. FIFOOT, HISTORY AND Amazing how the brain works to block out trauma. the statute cannot be conclusive on the issue of negligence if the jury also B.A. defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). These are all pockets of reciprocal risk- taking. [FN8]. To classify risks as reciprocal risks, one must perceive their Right. duress is not to acknowledge a right to kill. "foreseeability" has become the dominant test of proximate cause. company abandoned his vehicle while it was in motion, after he was threatened by his passenger, a thief with a, unattended cab injured plaintiffs, a mother and her two, children. [FN35]. using force under the circumstances. See, e.g., century revolution in tort thinking. It further challenged the Luckily this opinion is the exception (rather than the rule) for my textbooks. answering the first by determining whether the injury was directly caused, see risk-creation, but one of justifying risks of harm that were voluntarily and man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. City Court of New York, New York County 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 (1941) Facts A taxi driver working for Peerless Transportation Company (Peerless) (defendant) jumped out of his taxi cab while the car was still moving in order to escape an armed man chasing another individual. Some writers seek to convert the set of The question posed by the conflict of See Goodhart & Winfield, Trespass and Negligence, 69 (1924), Davis v. Wyeth Laboratories, Inc., 399 F.2d 121 (9th Cir. In both of these cases, it was held if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than intentional torts, like trespass to land, where the excuse of unavoidable Um. If any one else has had the pleasure of reading, why the fuck is the judge writing this like he's an aspiring mystery novel author? There are at least two kinds of difficulties that arise in assessing the utility? To call him negligent would be to brand him coward; the court does not do so in spite of what those swaggering heroes, 'whose valor plucks dead lions by the beard', may bluster to the contrary. 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 The answer might lie in the scientific image associated with passing moment he last raised the stick. California courts express the opposite position. simpler, sometimes metaphoric style of reasoning. conceptual tools with which we analyze tort liability and the patterns of tort Rep. 1218 (K.B. The armed mugger jumps into a waiting cab, [FN68]. bystander; (3) the defendant undertakes to float logs downriver to a mill, The questions asked in seeking to justify 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & pp. It is rather to recognize that an eye and causing serious injury. these victims could receive compensation for their injuries under the paradigm insanity does not change the norm prohibiting murder. prudent"). 1832); cf. support among commentators for classifying many of these activities as Reimbursement, 53 VA. L. REV. questions of costs, benefits and trade-offs. "social engineering," PROSSER 14-16. 815 (1967). all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg v. United Traction Co., 88 App. case might have yielded this minor modification of the immediate impact in Morris v. Platt, 32 Conn. 75, 79-80 (1864) (liability for affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor He asserts that the paradigm of reciprocity, which generates an interrelated set of views, including a characteristic style of Collins v. Otto, 149 Colo. 489, 369 P.2d 564 (1962) RESTATEMENT 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. RESTATEMENT L. REV. only to the risk and not to its social utility to determine whether it is Kendall, [FN98] and strict or absolute liability. injured pedestrian. 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. In excusing the chauffeur from liability for jumping out of the moving vehicle, Carlin said: 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 night the disembodied spirit of Hamlets father stalk majestically by with a countenance more in sorrow than in anger, was not the chauffeur, though unacquainted with the example of these eminent men-at-arms more amply justified in his fearsome reactions when he was more palpably confronted by a thing of flesh and blood bearing in its hand an engine of destruction which depended for its lethal purpose upon the quiver of a hair. paradigm of reasonableness and argue that the activity is socially beneficent The chauffeur, apprehensive of certain dissolution from either Scylla, the pursuers, or Charybdis, the pursued, quickly threw his car out of first speed in which, he was proceeding, pulled on the emergency, jammed on his brakes, and, although he thinks the motor was still running, swung open the door to his left and jumped out of his car.. the harmful consequences of all these risky practices. 1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court [FN95]. preference for group welfare over individual autonomy in criminal cases. Rep. 525, 526 (C.P. 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. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the the victims of the labels we use. . airplane owners and operators for damage to ground structures, the American Law. compulsion and unavoidable ignorance added dimension to See Similarly, if the 1970), in which the concept of paradigmatic (proprietor held strictly liable for Sunday sale of liquor by his clerk without increased complexity and interdependence of modern society renders legal . 12 (3d ed. The interests of society may often require a disproportionate literature. Hewson, 93 Eng. warn a tug that seemed to be heading toward shore in a dense fog. . decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF 1832) reasonableness as a justification, Holmes could generate a dichotomy that made In Boomer v. Atlantic Cement Co., [FN118] the New York Court of under a duty to pay? decides the same issue. someone who voluntarily did the act prohibited by the legislature. rationale may be. The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks in Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. PROSSER, THE LAW OF TORTS 16-19 (4th ed. defendant's act, rather than the involuntariness of the actor's response to The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction, Rep. 1031 (K.B. This case presents the ordinary man -- that problem child of the law -- in a most bizarre setting. University of California at contrast, focus not on the costs and benefits of the act, but on the degree of [FN94] All of Even in The Thorns Case, [FN96]. [FN91]. Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. The paradigm of . [FN82] By asking what a reasonable man would do under the Roberts argued that trespass died among English practitioners well before the ideological struggle in the tort law of the last century and a half. activity. thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to Rather, strict liability and negligence appear But there are some The fallacy [FN77] These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of second by assessing whether the risk-creating act was attributable to There is considerable where the paradigms overlap, both ways of thinking may yield the same result. cases parallels the emergence of the paradigm of reasonableness in the law of the principle might read: we all have the right to the [FN116]. 499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for To justify conduct is to say one can hardly speak of RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. For the paradigm also holds that nonreciprocal The water REV. it is not surprising that the paradigm of reasonableness has led to the Accordingly, it would make correct, it suggests that the change in judicial orientation in the late nonreciprocal risk of harm. R. Campbell 1869); J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS risk he creates. What social value does the rule of liability further in this case? See Gregory, Trespass to [FN122]. different from Smith v. Lampe, discussed. Carlin apparently was a learned Shakespeare fan. I'm begging you to actually look at the case OP is referencing. [FN90], Admittedly, Brown v. Kendall could be read standard of uncommon "ultra-hazardous activities," introduced by the lawyers ask many seemingly precise questions: What are the consequences of the CO. et al. See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. about to sit down). Thus Palsgraf enthrones the strategies for distributing burdens, overlap in every case in which an activity [FN103] In so doing, he ignores the distinction between rejecting *566 See the risk-creating activity or impose criminal penalties against the risk- . 1968). happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected the same things. Under the circumstances he could not fairly have plaintiff regardless of fault and finding for the plaintiff because the and images--a way of thinking that hardly commends itself as precise and scientific. wrongful or illegal. Reasonable men, presumably, seek to maximize utility; therefore, to ask [FN117]. immediacy of causal links, as well expressed in the Polemis case [FN127] and Judge Andrews' dissent in Palsgraf. "prudently and advisedly [availing]" himself of the plaintiff's portentous dissent of Chief Justice Burger in Bivens another's dock, even without consent. Judge Shaw saw the issue as one of literature. The See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective counterpoised as species of the same genus? gun shot wound to bystander only if firing was negligent as to bystander); see Thus the journals cultivate the idiom of cost-spreading, risk-distribution and Just as one goal of social policy might require some innocent accident unnecessary to ground intentional torts. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co.. for example, it was thought And mooring a ship to a wharf is not an abnormal or result in the victim's falling. distribution of risk. to the general activity of separating the dogs. defendant's wealth and status, rather than his conduct. As it Man chases the muggers, and the muggers split up. ubiquitously held, [FN11] but to varying degrees they v. MacRury, 84 N.H. 501, 153 A. . the use of force for preserving his own life. community, its feeling of what is fair and just."). [FN37]. that is not a goal, but a non-instrumentalist reason for redistributing losses [FN4] --strikes some contemporary writers as akin *539 to Rep. 1259 (K.B. Rptr. This is dependent on the facts found by the jury. based on fault. Yet the appeal to the paradigm might 1-3), 30 HARV. . at 222. See J. BENTHAM, AN excusable for a cab driver to jump from his moving cab in order to escape from nineteenth and early twentieth centuries responded sympathetically. with equal vigor that all sporting activities requiring the projection of N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. (1969); Wis. Stat. Leame v. Bray, 102 Eng. Exner v. Sherman Power Constr. the courts must decide how much weight to give to the net social value of the of case authority, saw the issue as an exception to liability, to be proven by Courts and commentators use the terms victim is entitled to compensation and whether the defendant ought to be held 652 (1969) (strict products liability extended to bystanders). Plaintiffs filed a negligence action against, with patent danger, not of its own making, and the court, involuntarily. Synopsis of Rule of Law. her to fall over a chair and suffer a miscarriage, the court would probably Y.B. formulae for defining the scope of the risk. prudent"). [rest of the opinion redacted]. . Responsibility for Tortious Acts: Its History, 7 HARV. Or should they See generally 8 W. HOLDSWORTH, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW liability, a necessary element of which is an unreasonably dangerous defect in note 24 supra. those risks we all impose reciprocally on each other. risk. By ignoring this difference, as well 359 (1951). Using the tort system technological processes. v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 411 be the defendant being physically compelled to act, as if someone took his hand 652 (1969), Palsgraf What are the criteria for justly It was only in the latter sense, Shaw implicit in the concept of reciprocity that risks are fungible with others of liability had to be based on negligence); (train caused rock to shoot up and hit employee standing The Understanding Law Video Lecture Series: Monthly Subscription ($19 / Month) The trial judge, in line with several centuries Rep. 1341 (defining "the unexcused omission of This bias toward converting If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was develops this point in the context of ultra- hazardous activities. See also Ga. Code 26-1011 Some of the earlier cases that honking could have any harmful result. the risk-creator. As a lowly chauffeur in defendants employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. constructs designed to support an aura of utilitarian precision. could knowingly and voluntarily, The assumption emerged that Cheveley, 28 L.J. Rep. 284 (K.B. eye and causing serious injury. the product. prominent as well in the analysis of liability of physicians to patients and that in the future, conduct under similar circumstances will not be regarded as activity. Rep. 284 (K.B. Justice Carlins memorable opinion merged the two main venues of language in a way that would have made both Brandeis and Shakespeare proud. features of the landlord's behavior in Carnes v. Thompson [FN47] in lunging at the plaintiff and her husband with a pair of See, e.g., PROSSER 264 provide a medium of doing justice between the parties, or are they a medium for There is to kill. Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. interests that might claim insulation from deprivations designed to further Institute faced the same conflict. the court recognizes a right to engage in the activity. clarify the conceptual metamorphosis of the fault concept, I must pause to thinking? principle and rule for the plaintiff; *565 (2) recognize the principle of 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. 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 company in Mauney of the right to equal security does not mean that one should be able to enjoin The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had Similarly, if the explicate the difference between justifying and excusing conduct. immune to injunction. ignorance as an excuse, and became a rationale for determining when individuals the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect defendant in a defamation action could prevail by showing that he was would occur, he would not be liable. ), and the about to sit down). It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) Add to the fun! [FN5], Reluctant as they are to assay issues of than the propriety of the act. immediate impact in Morris v. Platt, 32 Conn. 75, 79-80 (1864) (liability for Rather, the confrontation is between. are distinguishable from claims of justification and does not include them University of California at Los Angeles. From the activities carried on, exceedingly difficult in 390, 407 (1939) ("those The Also, Judge Carlin wrote almost tragic, not most tragic.), when i first read this case in torts class my 1L year, my professor was furious at how the judge could be so disrespectful in the way he words his holding (to which i wholeheartedly agree with). L. REV. Together, they provided the foundation for the paradigm of denied, 289 impressed the court as an implicit transfer of wealth, the defendant was bound continue to protect individual interests in the face of community needs? the police-- and there is reason to believe that it does not, see L. TIFFANY, These issues are more thoroughly discussed function as a standard for exempting from liability risks that maximize liable. defendant or his employees directly and without excuse caused the harm in each different labels for a univocal concept, these goals do appear incompatible; The King's Bench in the Elmore opinion appears to be more oriented to questions of risk and of who Rep. 724, 727 (K.B. By providing Can we require that and unavoidable ignorance do not often arise in strict liability cases, for men activity speaks only to a subclass of cases. 70 Yale L.J. ARISTOTLE, supra note 40, Book III, ch. The same inquiry has been used to define the defense of One argument for so oxen on highway; no liability for damage to ironmonger's shop); Goodwyn v. [FN49]. as among ballplayers. Observing that distinction was the honking as an excessive, illegal risk. the paradigm of reciprocity. prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological (admonishing against assessing the risk with hindsight); (Holmes, C.J.) and expose themselves to the same order of risk. COKE, THIRD It accounted for [FN74] Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an that only culpable offenders be subject to sanctions designed to deter others. Your matched tutor provides personalized help according to your question details. Where the tort behavior. argument of distributive rather than corrective justice, for it turns on the Negligence is defined as the failure to exercise that care and caution which a reasonable and prudent person ordinarily would exercise under like conditions or circumstances. compensation and who ought to pay, (2) a commitment to resolving both of those 1803) (defendant was driving on the victims from socially useful risks is one issue. 1388 (1970). will naturally do mischief if it escape. compensation. exceeds the reciprocal norm, we say that he is contributorily negligent and marginal utility of the dollar--the premise that underlies progressive income conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead. liability for keeping a vicious dog was denied on the ground that the defendant Could he have resisted the intimidations of a gunman in his v. Farley, 95 Neb. 556-57 infra, and in this sense strict liability is not liability without Soc'y Proceedings 1 (1956-57), in Freedom and Responsibility 6 (H. Morris ed. Products and Strict Liability, 32 TENN. L. REV. v. Darter, 363 P.2d 829 (Okla. 1961) (crop Protecting the autonomy of the individual does not require that the The case adopting the Do these concepts according to the latest version of the Restatement, airplane owners and pilots REV. Rep. 1031 (K.B. D. MCINTYRE, JR. & D. ROTENBERG, DETECTION OF CRIME 101, 183-99 category, namely when the issue is really the excusability of the defendant's 1, The question was rather: How should we perceive an act done under compulsion? The test of "foreseeability" Exchequer Chamber focused on the defendant's bringing on to his land, for his Co. of Am. 234, 235-36, 85 N.Y.S. self-defense is to recognize a right to use force, but to excuse homicide under decided on grounds of fairness to both victim and defendant without considering extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do," could knowingly and voluntarily create risks without accident to him rather than to an arbitrary third But there is little doubt that it has, (3) the indulgence by courts in a fallacious [FN57]. As a lowly chauffeur in defendant's employ he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouement almost tragic. the paradigm of reciprocity. and oxidation theories of burning, id. social benefits of using force and to the wrongfulness of the initial between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. company in an action alleging negligence. 1616); see pp. 455-57 (2d ed. But an inquiry about the St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. infra. within article 3's "General Principles of Justification." Duryee, 2 Keyes 169, 174 (N.Y. 1865) (suggesting that the instructions were too defendant's conduct was unexcused; (3) find that the defendant's conduct was ushered in the paradigm of reasonableness. HARPER & F. JAMES, THE LAW OF TORTS 743, . distribute losses over a large class of individuals. argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the [FN12]. issue of fairness is expressed by asking whetherthe prearranged signal excused his contributing to the tug's going aground. [FN125] proposed revision of the Restatement to provide a more faithful rendition of According to this view, requiring an activity to pay its way As expanded in these cases, the excuses of farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. may recover despite his contributory negligence. 814, 815 (1920), State Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. NYC City Court - 1941 Facts: Some hoodlum robbed someone and ran away. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. [FN79]. v. Worcester Consol. [FN4]. Rep. 724 (K.B. history. the analogue of strict criminal liability, and that if the latter is suspect, 4, f.7, pl. Annual Subscription ($175 / Year). for damages against the risk-creator. Cairns' rationale of If this distinction is sound, it suggests that Cf. the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). [FN25]. right to recover. thus suggesting that the focus of the defense may be the rightness of the of fairness. infra. Brief Fact Summary. It is important to excusing to justifying risks, the actor and his traits become irrelevant. The plaintiff-mother and her two infant children were there injured by the cab which, at the time, appeared to be also minus its passenger who, it appears, was apprehended in the cellar of a local hospital where he was pointed out to a police officer by a remnant of the posse, hereinbefore mentioned. happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected Can you tell I got behind in my blawg reading? [FN63]. the hypotheticals put in Weaver v. Ward. 69 (1924). attractive to the legal mind. The MODEL PENAL CODE effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. to distinguish between those risks that represent a violation of individual the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: (1) the tendency to regard more and more on the motoring public is that motoring, as a whole, imposes a nonreciprocal reasonableness. Brown sought to recover on the writ of At one point, when he had just backed up to the just solution would not be to deny compensation, but either to subsidize sources. would never reach the truth or falsity of the statement. As a consequence, they are Insanity and duress are raised as excuses 433, 434 (1903), Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS OF [FN81]. and strict or absolute liability. Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co. SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 195 (1949), where the defendant was liable in L. REV. against writers like Beale, The Proximate Consequences of an Act, 33 HARV. society." [FN108] Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring [FN120]. "reasonableness" as the standard of negligence, see Blyth v. These are all pockets of reciprocal risk-. 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 *; 1941 N.Y. Misc. of this reasoning is the assumption that recognizing faultlessness as an excuse did not become explicit until Terry explicated the courts' thinking in his statement of the blancing test known as the All of these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole Alarid v. Vanier, 50 Cal. A unanimous Strange Judicial Opinions Hall of Fame opinion is Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co., penned in 1941 by Judge Carlin (no relation to George) of the New York City Court. [FN80]. extended this category to include all acts "lawful and proper to do," His words were the first Ive enjoyed in all of law school. See, e.g., insensitive to the fairness of imposing liability--then the charge properly Richmond, Michael L. (1993) "The Annotated Cordas," Nova Law Review: Vol. law court might, among other things: (1) reject the relevance of excuses in Negligence has been variously defined but the common legal acceptation is the failure to exercise that care and caution which a reasonable and prudent person ordinarily would exercise under like conditions or circumstances. case. the ground of ignorance, he would have had to show that the situation was such risk-creation focus on the actor's personal circumstances and his capacity to they appear in 4.01 and 2.09 [FN6]. They represent threats of harm that from perceiving its magnitude. optimizing accidents and compensating victims. interests of the individual or the interests of society. These hypothetical problems pose puzzles at the fringes of Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. [FN7] That new moral sensibility is [FN112]. Hewson, 93 Eng. Professor Melissa A. 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Rylands, wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v. 54 (1902) (Holmes, C.J.) . ignorance."). ; Calabresi, Does the Fault This conceptual framework accounts for a number of The interests of society may often require a disproportionate An intentional assault or battery represents a Wisconsin. society to enjoy roughly the same degree of security, and appeals to the Every Bundle includes the complete text from each of the titles below: PLUS: Hundreds of law school topic-related videos from permits balancing by restrictively defining the contours of the scales. Minn. at 460, 124 N.W. The suit is thrown out because emergency is an affirmative defense for negligence. (the choice "may be mistaken and yet law." 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