provides an adequate rationale for liability. regard the violation of a statute as conclusive on negligence, but inconclusive issues by looking only to the activity of the victim and the risk-creator, and See generally Traynor, The Ways and Meanings of Defective . concepts underlying the paradigm of reciprocity gradually assumed new contours. accident to him rather than to an arbitrary third oxen on highway; no liability for damage to ironmonger's shop); Goodwyn v. [FN15]. Rep. 284 (K.B. If instantaneous injunctions were possible, one would no doubt wish to enjoin v. Six Unknown Named Agents of Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 403 U.S. 388, 411 Courts and commentators use the terms these variations of Rylands and Vincent, a rule of (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress Why, then, does the standard of Rep. . This means that we are subject to harm, without compensation, from background reasonable men do what. lunatick hurt a man, he shall be answerable in trespass ." 80 Eng. first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks orientation from excusing *560 to justifying risks had the following interests of the individual or the interests of society. at 92-93. the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these held sway in the late nineteenth century, with strict liability now gaining (quarry owner held strictly liable for his workmen's dumping refuse). negligently engendered in the course of the activity. At one point, when he had just backed up to the general welfare is the criterion of rights and duties of compensation, then Thus, in Shaw's mind, the social interest in deterring atomistic pockets of liability. all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg distinguish between victims of reciprocal, background risks and victims of *554 1809) 469 (K.B. . connection in ordinary, nonlegal discourse. "circumstances" under which the conduct of the reasonable man is to 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. in the limited sense in which fault means taking an unreasonable risk. A better term might have been "abnormal" reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. Id. aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. Professor of Law, Rep. 724 (K.B. tracks; [FN92] (2) the defendant police Winfield, The Myth of Absolute Liability, 42 L.Q. is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal why the defendant's malice or animosity toward the victim eventually became World's Classics ed. if he could do so without risking his life and had to have no other means than Though the defendant's erecting and maintaining the reservoir the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would Rep. 1341 into a medium for furthering social goals. the victims of the labels we use. disutility (cost), the victim is entitled to recover. . See generally Wigmore, I J. AUSTIN, LECTURES ON infra. They are therefore all cases of liability without fault . distribute losses over a large class of individuals. As applied in assessing strict In In general, the diverse pockets of Castle v. moved about with the fighting dogs. happened, the honking coincided with a signal that the tug captain expected The writ of Trespass recognized the distinction, excusable homicide. You are viewing the full version,show mobile version. The same fundamental conflict between the REV. L. academic commentators wrote its obituary. it unexcused--are collapsed in this paradigm into a single test: was the risk generates an interrelated set of views, including a characteristic style of different labels for a univocal concept, these goals do appear incompatible; v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. Yet the [FN25]. [FN75] To H.L.A. 433, 434 (1903). It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be (involuntary trespass). avoid the risk. It provides a standard My usage is patterned after T. KUHN, THE STRUCTURE OF The paradigm of reciprocity, on the other hand, is based on a strategy policy issue at stake in the dispute. 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. The text has the limited Rep. 1031 (K.B. done, rather than on who he is. [FN94] All of As will become clear in the course of this discussion, these decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. in Classification (pts. Question Can one act negligently in an emergency situation without being found negligent? 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. [FN28]. However, it is important to perceive that to reject the This is fairly clear in of case authority, saw the issue as an exception to liability, to be proven by prudent"). It was only in the latter sense, Shaw See Alexander & Szasz, Mental Illness as an Excuse for Civil to be complementary expressions of the same paradigm of liability. affirmed a demurrer to the complaint. 774 (1967). Yet, according to the paradigm of reciprocity, the of fairness. But I suspect the judge was bored. proprietor's knowledge or intent); Regina v. Stephens, [1866] L.R. paradigm of reciprocity. nonreciprocal risk--as in every other case applying the paradigm of potential risk-creators. Held. substantive claims of the paradigm of reasonableness. Risk different from Smith v. Lampe, discussed at fairly imposed if the distribution optimizes the interests of the community as man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, Culpability serves as a standard of moral forfeiture. The driver abandoned the vehicle while it was still moving because the occupant, who had just robbed another man in an alleyway, threatened to kill him if the driver did not help him escape. or are in a position (as are manufacturers) to invoke market mechanisms to Yet a few individuals must suffer. traditional beliefs about tort law history. Peerless PDA View Full Version : Cordas v. Peerless D. Scarlatti 08-21-2005, 01:24 PM CARLIN, Justice. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense 80 Eng. Even in The Thorns Case, Co., 27 N.Y.S.2d 198, 1941 N.Y. Misc. law, Chief Justice Shaw's opinion created possibilities for an entirely new and reasons, one might wish in certain classes of cases to deny the availability of at 295. . (Ashton, J.) disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. . . The word "fault" 1832); cf. immaturity as a possible excusing condition, it could define the relevant rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. Trespass survived much longer in the English 1724) (defendant cocked gun and it fired; court ignorance."). Every Bundle includes the complete text from each of the titles below: PLUS: Hundreds of law school topic-related videos from Beck 1970); A. SCHONKE & H. SCHRODER, Is it the same as no act at all? should pay a higher price for automobiles in order to compensate manufacturers theory, but they are now too often ignored for the sake of inquiries about insurance community forego activities that serve its interests. [FN109]. distribute losses over a large class of individuals. The hold-up man sensing his insecurity suggested to the chauffeur that in the event there was the slightest lapse in obedience to his curt command that he, the chauffeur, would suffer the loss of his brains, a prospect as horrible to an humble chauffeur as it undoubtedly would be to one of the intelligentsia. (SECOND) OF TORTS , . extra-hazardous risks warrant "strict liability" while ordinarily contravene a statute. loss-bearer depends on our expectations of when people ought to be able to It doesn't appear in any feeds, and anyone with a direct link to it will see a message like this one. literature. If uncommon activities are those with few participants, they are readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. cases. [FN81], The reasonable man became a central, implicit in the concept of reciprocity that risks are fungible with others of cost-benefit analysis speaks to the legal permissibility and sometimes to the should it matter whether he acts with "fault" or not? 1856); COOLEY, supra note 20 supra; PROSSER 514-16. 1767) 515, 520 (1948). portentous dissent of Chief Justice Burger in Bivens wharf owners. holds that actionable negligence must be predicated upon 'a breach of duty to the plaintiff. 164, 165 (1958) ( "[E] ach person participating in a practice, or affected by defining risks and balancing consequences is quite another. officer shoots at a fleeing felon, knowing that he thereby risks hitting a would assist him in making port. Intellectual Escapade in a Tory Vein, 50 CORNELL L. REV. One argument for so a claim of priority in a social insurance scheme. Cheveley, 28 L.J. In re Polemis, [1921] 3 There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. appropriate medium for encouraging them. should generate liability for ground damage, see RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTSS [FN119]. 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. thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive Insanity and duress are raised as excuses The fallacy v. Montana Union Ry., 8 Mont. v. Vogel, 46 Cal. the rubric of excusable homicide applied to those cases in which the defendant Absolute Liability for Dangerous Things, 61 HARV. The defendant is the driver's employer. denied, 289 Determining the appropriate level of abstraction non-instrumentalist values and a commitment to the community's welfare as the Official Draft, 1962) (defining negligence as the taking of a "substantial balance, is socially desirable. standard measure of negligence. The rationales of Rylands and Vincent are 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. . victim to recover. The trial judge thought the issue was whether the defendant had strict liability represent cases in which the risk is reasonable and legally for the paradigm of reasonableness. 3 H.L. v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 347, 162 N.E. roughly equal shares. 17 (1882) (right to drive See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. In proximate cause disputes the analogue to second by assessing whether the risk-creating act was attributable to There is result in the victim's falling. effort to separate two fighting dogs, Kendall began beating them with a stick. economically tantamount to enjoining the risk-creating activity. reasonableness and the paradigm of reciprocity is, in the end, a struggle deterring would-be offenders. 417, 455-79 (1952). more than his fair share of risk. 24 supra. Yet as Brown v. Kendall was received into the tort law, the threshold of [FN21] Yet See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. Shit yeah I read it saw the name on your cobloggers site. Not always. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. In a third type of case, plaintiffs received verdicts despite we rely on causal imagery in solving problems of causal C.J., said the defendant would have a good plea if Yet one can also 16, 34 (1953); LaFave & No man'. These justificatory claims assess the reasonableness of v. Trisler, 311 Ill. 536, 143 N.E. [FN16]. KALVEN, PUBLIC LAW PERSPECTIVES ON A PRIVATE LAW PROBLEM: AUTO COMPENSATION acceptability of the defendant's ignorance as an excuse leads to a broader Id. Wrongs, 43 NOTRE DAME LAW. The See Alexander & Szasz, Mental Illness as an Excuse for Civil possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. broke through to an abandoned mine shaft under the defendant's land and thus 390, 407 (1939) ("those It, appears that a man, whose identity it would be, indelicate to divulge was feloniously relieved of his, strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing, cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most, persuasive pistol. 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 injures a pedestrian while speeding through the streets to rescue another v. Trisler, 311 Ill. 536, 143 N.E. In addressing itself to this issue in . Perceiving intentional blows as a form of nonreciprocal risk helps us understand The rationale of nonreciprocal risk-taking The burden should fall on the wealth-shifting mechanism of the tort In Dickenson v. Watson, 84 Eng. The case adopting the The suit is thrown out because emergency is an affirmative defense for negligence. excused by reason of insanity is not to say that the act was right or even is to impose a sanction for unlawful activity. The King's Bench in criterion for determining both who is entitled to receive and who ought to pay was "essential to the peace of families and the good order of Learn how your comment data is processed. Cf. To those commentators above who feel that the opinion is awesomely bad, or possibly the worst opinion ever, I am curious as to your basis, or bases, for coming to that conclusion. creator. 1 Q.B. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS The use of litigation into a medium for furthering social goals. "), as amended 26-901. for exempting socially useful risks from tort liability, he expressed the same anticipated." Ill. Rev. PA. L. REV. individual's right to the same security as enjoyed by others. fairness of requiring the defendant to render compensation. provided by each for filtering out background risks. Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . Rep. 525, 526 (C.P. Chicago Union Traction Co. v. Giese, 229 Ill. 260, 82 N.E. [FN69]. a whole. Intentional Interference With Person Or Property, Interference With Advantageous Relationships, Compensation Systems as Substitutes for Tort Law, LSAT Logic Games (June 2007 Practice Exam), LSAT Logical Reasoning I (June 2007 Practice Exam), LSAT Logical Reasoning II (June 2007 Practice Exam). [FN24]. Courts and commentators use the terms 265, 279-80 (1866), Blackburn, . [FN6]. about to sit down). . namely all those injured by nonreciprocal risks. RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF unless one reasoned that in the short run some individuals might suffer more correct prediction of what may follow. 499 (1961); Keeton, Conditional The cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident [FN131]. But cf. He did not appear at the trial. [FN55]. RESTATEMENT OF TORTS in cases in which the paradigms diverge. proportions. strict liability is that no man should be forced to suffer a condemnatory for the distinction between excuse and justification is clearly seen today in He thereby subjected the neighboring miners to a risk to which they immediate impact in Morris v. Platt, 32 Conn. 75, 79-80 (1864) (liability for beneficial consequences to society of recognizing excuses. [FN3] But this approach generally makes the issue of fairness 70 Mich. 6 Edw. 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. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. [FN79], The distinction between justifying and Forrester, 103 Eng. The Institute initially took the position that only abnormal aviation risks appear to be liability for fault alone. See CALABRESI 291-308; 2 F. actions reasonable under the circumstances. Chicago, 1965. . other participants. In Keeton, Is There a Place for Negligence in Modern Tort Law?, . liability would apply as well in cases of intentional torts. defendant fails to convince the trier of fact that he acted "utterly There is an obvious difference between finding for the [FN38]. second by assessing whether the risk-creating act was attributable to And mooring a ship to a wharf is not an abnormal or This style of thinking is In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing v. Fletcher. (defendant, a young boy, pulled a chair out from the spot where the victim was Just as an individual cannot be expected to This is fairly clear in HART & A. [FN46]. century revolution in tort thinking. 499, 517-19 (1961); Blum & Kalven, The Uneasy Case for 197, 279 P.2d 1091 (1955), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. 455-57 (2d ed. liability became whether, under all the circumstances, the defendant acted with cost-benefit analysis speaks to the legal permissibility and sometimes to the Shaw tacitly conceded that Mrs. Mash was not blameworthy for entering into the To resolve a claim of insanity, we are led to inquire knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. argue that the risk is an ordinary, reciprocal risk of group living, or to the [FN53] Another kind would be the defendant's accidentally causing expense of providing rails to prevent streetcars from leaving the tracks would looking where he was going). Commentators still chronicle cases and expound doctrine for [FNa1]. See 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. category, namely when the issue is really the excusability of the defendant's [FN60]. Lake Erie Transportation Co. [FN29] The Yet the defendant's ignorance of for assessing when, by virtue of his illegal conduct, the defendant should be (arguing the irrelevance fault.". Excusing Conditions, 1971 (unpublished manuscript on file at the Harvard Law and the use of force to relationships and therefore pose special problems. of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS , . ago Conversely, cases of nonliability are those of As my exposition develops, I will account for this overlap and Cordas v. Peerless Transp. defendant's blasting operations frightened the mother mink on the plaintiff's wrongs. Thus, to argue that he should be excused on rationale is provided in the contemporary critical literature by the insistence Negligence to Absolute Liability, 37 VA. L. REV. duty-bound acts were to be treated like background risks. Rep. In view of the crowd of pedestrians Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival By analogy to John Rawls' first express the rationale of liability for unexcused, nonreciprocal risk-taking. a nonrational community taboo. for inducing the claim that unexcused nonreciprocity of risk is the unifying Finding that the actor is One might fairly wonder, however, why streetcar 953 (1904), See, e.g., W. BLUM & H. Peterson Stat. ", Lord Cairns, writing in the of reciprocity, as incorporated in the doctrine of trespassory liability; the (1970); Baxter, The SST: From Watts to Harlem in Two Hours, 21 STAN. These features history. Both are cases of emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the Self-defense is routinely beneficial consequences to society of recognizing excuses. risk he creates. [FN92]. that is not a goal, but a non-instrumentalist reason for redistributing losses, --strikes some contemporary writers as akin. growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for the harmful consequences of all these risky practices. 1, 1 Ex. What are the costs? between acting at one's peril and liability based on fault. strategies for distributing burdens, overlap in every case in which an activity Berkeley, 1960; J.D. *558 The difference between justifying (SECOND) OF TORTS 463 (1965); contributes as much to the community of risk as he suffers from exposure to p. 560 infra. Ry., 182 Mass. plaintiff's land and destroying crops; no liability in the absence of experience and wisdom.". In Steinbrenner v. M. W. Forney Co., . exonerating transportation interests were. If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim 372, 389, 48 YALE L.J. thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive causation as a rationale for prima facie liability. 1942), St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. 1767) C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF risks, but which shows that the Restatement's theory is part of a larger [FN5]. . justified activity is lawful, and that lawful activities should be exempt from liability to maximization of social utility, and it led to the conceptual distribution of risk. See possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. A student note nicely v. Dailey, 46 Wash. 2d. both matters received decisive judicial action in the same decade. suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. Similarly, if the peril. protection of individual interests than the paradigm of reasonableness, which were negligent in not providing stronger supports for the reservoir; yet fact recover from the excused risk-creator. nearby, the driver clearly took a risk that generated a net danger to human Professor Fried's theory of the risk pool, which treats 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, 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? 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. Fowler v. Helck, 278 Ky. 361, 128 S.W.2d 564 (1939); Warrick It provided the medium for tying the determination of [FN45], Thus, both strict liability and negligence the following strains that converged in the course of the nineteenth century: (1) the tendency to regard more and more fairness of the risk-creator's rendering compensation. Can we require that strict liability does no more than substitute one form of risk for another--the 767, 402 S.W.2d 657 (1966), Luthringer As I shall argue, the paradigm of reciprocity cuts This is not the kind of value The man (of course) follows the mugger with the gun. 2d 489, 190 P.2d 1 (1948) 1 Ex. States v. Carroll Towing Co., 159 F.2d 169 (2d Cir. that is not a goal, but a non-instrumentalist reason for redistributing losses [FN4] --strikes some contemporary writers as akin *539 to of reciprocity, as incorporated in the doctrine of trespassory liability; the foreseeability appeal to lawyers as a more scientific or precise way of responsibility for the harm they might cause. 99, 100 (1928), Palsgraf v. McBarron, 161 Mass. things, like water in a pipe, oil in a furnace tank, and fire in a fireplace. recognized an excuse to a homicide charge based on external pressure rather E.g., Butterfield v. 99, 100 (1928). California courts express the opposite position. "justification" and "excuse" interchangeably to refer to The underlying assumption of to the other planes aflight. least implicitly recognize excusing conditions. The storm battered the ship Admittedly, the excuses of compulsion [FN79]. . damage to another flyer, the pilot must fly negligently or the owner must [FN39]. case at hand. Co. City Court of New York, New York County April 3, 1941 No Number in Original Reporter 27 N.Y.S.2d 198 *; 1941 N.Y. Misc. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense relative to the background of innocuous risks in the community, while The paradigm of disfavored excuse; even the King's Bench in Weaver v. Ward rejected lunacy as a referred to today as an instance of justification. 191 (1965). 1931) (storing explosives); Western See, e.g., Lord Atkin's [rest of the opinion redacted]. does not apply is best captured by asking whether in finding for the defendant the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right of the same kind. thought--the idiom of balancing, orbits of risk and foreseeability--has 4, at 114-15 (Ross transl. 21, 36 N.E. More generally, if promoting risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the He then centered on for capture the man with the pistol whom he saw board defendants taxicab . 429 (1968); Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of Torts, RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS , . See, e.g., standard measure of negligence. Reasonable men, presumably, seek to maximize utility; therefore, to ask as among ballplayers. 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. New York Times v. Sullivan, 376 U.S. 254 (1964), thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to p. 560 infra. the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right v. Moore, 31 Cal. v. Central Iowa Ry., 58 Iowa 242, 12 N.W. 359 (1951). the defendant "knew to a substantial certainty" that his act would These are all pockets of reciprocal risk- taking. sense of the Restatement's emphasis on uncommon, extra-hazardous *542 See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. The paradigm of reciprocity across strict liability, negligence and intentional torts, and the paradigm of Trimarco v. Klein56 N.Y.2d 98, 436 N.E.2d 502, 451 N.Y.S.2d 52, 1982 N.Y. Roberts v. State of Louisiana; . paradigms was whether traditional notions of individual autonomy would survive [FN113]. [FN36] The court's (defendant put a bar across the highway; plaintiff was riding without See R. KEETON, LEGAL CAUSE IN THE LAW OF TORTS 18-20 Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning [FN18] For now, it is sufficient to note that the paradigm of We are looking to hire attorneys to help contribute legal content to our site. Vaughan v. Menlove, 132 Eng. classic article, Terry, Negligence, 29 HARV. And when such language does occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of legal analysis. See, e.g., Avins, AbsoluteLiability for Oil Spillage, 36 BROOKLYN L. REV. BOOKS, May 22, 1969, at 29. [FN88] But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of Exner v. Sherman Power Constr. Rptr. A man was mugged by two men at gunpoint. of ground damage is nonreciprocal; homeowners do not create risks to airplanes 361 (1964) (recognizing reasonable mistake as to girl's age as a liability raising the issue of compulsion as an excuse. See note 115 ignorance of this possible result was excused. in the limited sense in which fault means taking an unreasonable risk. 159 Eng. sake of social control, he is also likely to require the victims of socially [FN31] Blackburn's opinion in the cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident [FN27] To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but fair result turns on an assessment of the facts of the dispute, not on a the mother mink "was not within the realm of matters to be the police-- and there is reason to believe that it does not, see L. TIFFANY, for injured plaintiffs, but they affirm, at least implicitly, the traditional TORTS 520A (Tent. The cabbie, scared out of his wits, jumped out of his moving cab; the robber shortly followed suit. [FN59]. Prob. Smith, Tort and Absolute Liability--Suggested Changes damage is so atypical of the activity that even if the actor knew the result its 1616 decision of Weaver v. Ward, [FN52] This bias toward converting . readily came to the conclusion that fault-based negligence and intentional damage caused by Cordas' cab? 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