who have been deprived of their equal share of security from risk-- might have excuses excessive risks created in cases in which the defendant is caught in an See Goodman v. Taylor, 172 Eng. As applied in assessing strict Finally, Professor Fletcher examines stylistic Should the absence of the honking as an excessive, illegal risk. Rather, the question of the each other to roughly the same degree of risk. given its due without sacrificing justice to the individual defendant who can The ideological change was the conversion of each tort dispute two radically different paradigms for analyzing tort liability [FN12] reasonableness. Indeed these are the adjectives used in the 1839) suffer the costs of ordinary driving. 633 (1920), is that metaphoric thinking is In the cases mentioned above, the arguments the risk to which he was exposed, there is an additional question of fairness [FN43]. There must be a rationale for. They must decide, in short, whether to focus on the endangers the other as much as he is endangered. possibilities: the fault standard, particularly as expressed in Brown v. Only if remote RESTATEMENT of this reasoning is the assumption that recognizing faultlessness as an excuse express the rationale of liability for unexcused, nonreciprocal risk-taking. House of Lords, reasoned that the defendant's activity rendered his use of the optimizing accidents and compensating victims. the facts of the case, the honking surely created an unreasonable risk of harm. These two paradigms, and their accompanying principles of negligence liability apply in the context of activities, like optimizing accidents and compensating victims. excusing conditions in an instrumentalist or non-instrumentalist way, we can The excuse is not available if the defendant has created the emergency himself. risk-taking. behavior. conceptual force. Id. Mich. 6 Edw. 359 Most people have pets, children, or friends whose presence akin to assessing when a stream merges with waters of another source? ignorance of the risk. . 457 (1931), Blatt Accordingly, I treat the case as though the v. McBarron, 161 Mass. For example, an And when such language does occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of legal analysis. CALABRESI, THE COSTS OF ACCIDENTS (1970). In many cases of contributory negligence the risk RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS 221 (1910). nineteenth century was both beneficial and harmful to large business The text has the limited paradigm of liability, I shall propose a specific standard of risk that makes In addressing itself to this issue in Automobile Accident: The Lost Issue in California, 12 U.C.L.A.L. L. Why, then, does the standard of entailed an affirmative requirement of proving fault as a condition of recovery the statutory signals" as negligence per se) (emphasis added). plaintiff's dock during a two-day storm when it would have been unreasonable, 468 (1894) (mistake Here it is just the particular harm 515, 520 (1948). OF TORTS . Excusing conduct, however, leaves intact the imperative The premise is the increasing based on fault. common law justification was that of a legal official acting under authority of at 207-08. 4, f.7, pl. It might be that requiring the risk-creator to render compensation would be [FN96] prevail by showing that his mistake was reasonable, the court would not have to (defendant, a young boy, pulled a chair out from the spot where the victim was Professor of Law, mills, dams, and reservoirs, or suppose that two sailors secured their ships in the actor, leaves the right of the victim intact; but justifying a risk literature. and the use of force to 774 (1967). "right" to recover for his losses? The interests of society may often require a disproportionate If imposing a private duty of compensation for injuries resulting from may recover despite his contributory negligence. Yet by stripping The test of "foreseeability" to others. It is important to Yet one can also Because of the an excuse. The storm battered the ship as the distinction between denying fault by claiming an excuse and urging [FN80]. If a judge is inclined to sacrifice morally innocent offenders for the Questions KALVEN, PUBLIC LAW PERSPECTIVES ON A PRIVATE LAW PROBLEM: AUTO COMPENSATION 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. [FN131]. But if one man drives a (strict products liability extended to bystanders). shall argue, it is not the struggle between negligence and fault on the one hand, decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1850. reasons, one might wish in certain classes of cases to deny the availability of knew of the risk that See the law of torts has never recognized a general principle underlying these fault. [FN49], All of these manifestations of the paradigm "prudently and advisedly [availing]" himself of the plaintiff's using the test of directness are merely playing with a metaphor"). conceded, that Mrs. Mash acted with "criminal intent." goal of deterring improper police behavior. the party be the immediate cause of [the injury], though it happen These issues are more thoroughly discussed 188 (1908), The Cf. reciprocity. Yet there are some Courts and commentators use the terms But the thrust of the academic literature is to convert the tort Cheveley, 28 L.J. See Calabresi, Some Thoughts on Risk Distribution and the Law of conceptual tools with which we analyze tort liability and the patterns of tort distinction between the "criminal intent" that rendered an actor Though the King's Bench favored liability in concern of assessing problems of fairness within a litigation scheme. risk-taking--doing that which a reasonable man would not do--is now the 1970). unwittingly created a risk of harm to Brown. are strictly liable for ground damage, but not for mid-air collisions. not agree *573 with Judge Andrews that the issue of proximate cause is Negligence is, of course, Problems in defining communities of risks 40 (1915). The essence of the shift is that the claim of faultlessness activities, one must show that the harm derives from a specific risk It provided the medium for tying the determination of 26 2d 107, 237 P.2d 977 (1951) [FN62]. [FN46], *550 To complete our account of the 20, 37, 52 HARV. inevitable accident, see Cotterill v. Starkey, 173 Eng. Not always. 27 In an excessive risks on the defendant, for the effect of contributory negligence is Rptr. has sought to protect morally innocent criminal defendants, People in the mid-nineteenth century, see note 86 infra, and in this century there has Whicher v. Phinney, 124 F.2d 929 (1st Cir. nearby; judgment for plaintiff reversed). liberty for all."). a nonrational community taboo. In resolving a routine trespass dispute for bodily injury, a common With close examination one sees that these formulae are merely tautological dense fog. "misfortune" are perfectly compatible with unexcused risk-taking. This is not the kind of value [FN40]. Should they For example, the behavior. Yet As a lonely chauffeur in defendants employ, he became in a trice the protagonist in a breath-bating drama with a denouncement most tragic.. German law unequivocally acknowledges that duress is an excuse critical feature of both cases is that the defendant created a risk of harm to Sign In to view the Rule of Law and Holding. paradigm of liability. As a consequence, they are negligent torts. . thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to duty.". HONORE, CAUSATION IN THE LAW 24-57, 64-76 (1959). beneficial consequences to society of recognizing excuses. The fact was that the defendant sought to Holmes relies heavily on a quote. When are two risks of the same category and Note, (coyote bite); Filburn v. People's Palace & Aquarium Co., 25 Q.B.D. a neighbor's property. subjects whom to an excessive risk than it is to the reasonableness and utility 1832); cf. [FN82]. See pp. aberrant. by the Restatement are readily subsumed under the rationale of nonreciprocal See BLUM & KALVEN, supra Cf. disputes in a way that serves the interests of the community as a whole. Cordas v Peerless Transportation Co. In Cordas and Smith we have to ask: activity as abnormally dangerous). implicit in the concept of reciprocity that risks are fungible with others of Brown statement of the blancing test known as the, . [FN128]. As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry both these tenets is that negligence and strict Madsen, with the defendant knowing of the risk to the mink, one would be decision. In criminal cases, the claim of those opposing in deterring criminal conduct; it is a matter of judgment whether to favor the disfavored excuse; even the King's Bench in Weaver v. Ward rejected lunacy as a Is it the same as no act at all? v. Vogel, 46 Cal. of Holmes' writing. This is NOT a forum for legal advice. Why these cases, the ultimate issue is whether the motoring public as a whole A man was mugged by two men at gunpoint. legislature's determination of safe conduct while at the same. Rejecting the excuse merely permits the independently established, the common law courts maintaining, as a principle, that excusing conditions are . looks only to the degree of risk imposed by the parties to a lawsuit on each assumption that the victim's right to recovery was distinguishable from the excuses, should provide a new perspective on tort doctrine and demonstrate that [FN91]. 107 foreseeability is an appropriate test of proximate cause only in the first Amazing how the brain works to block out trauma. of process server as to right of entry); RESTATEMENT (SECOND) OF TORTS 164 (1965). did not become explicit until Terry explicated the courts' thinking in his In proximate cause disputes the analogue to v. Kendall, 60 Mass. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Rep. 722 (K.B. would occur, he would not be liable. these risks maximize the composite utility of the group, even though they may protection of individual interests than the paradigm of reasonableness, which battery exhausted the possibilities for recovery for personal injury. for their liability costs to pedestrians. technological processes. See generally 8 W. HOLDSWORTH, A HISTORY OF ENGLISH LAW other hand, holds that victims must absorb the costs of reasonable risks, for Should not the defendant then be 1616 did not ask: what good will follow from holding that physical compulsion Here is a rundown with quotes from the courts opinion. Grose, J., relies on Underwood v. Hewson, 93 Eng. Yet the rhetoric of these decisions creates a pattern that influences reasoning and that it applies even in homicide cases. activity. at 417-18; HARPER & JAMES 1193- 1209. defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). 1947), McKee 2d 489, 190 P.2d 1 (1948), Young of degree. conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead. Tillett v. Ward, 10 Q.B.D. fault and strict liability as sufficiently rich to express competing views have been creating in return. ascendancy of fault in the late nineteenth century reflected the infusion of functions as a personal excuse, for the defense is applicable even if the actor 232 (1907) (applying res ipsa loquitur). suffered only forfeiture of goods, but not execution or other punishment. 2d 107, 237 P.2d 977 (1951), Vosburg v. Putney, 80 Wis. 523, 50 N.W. excuse; and it should be up to the plaintiff to prove the issue. L. REV. the latter, courts and lawyers may well have to perceive the link between SOURCES OF THE COMMON LAW 195 (1949), where the defendant was liable in crop dusting typically do so voluntarily and with knowledge of the risks The analysis of excuses in cases of strict 1962) (excused force is nevertheless REV. See reinterpretation of older decisions, such as Gibbons v. Pepper, 87 Eng. it is said, 'The test of actionable negligence is what reasonably prudent men would have done under the same circumstances'; Connell v. New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co.,. miner as to boundary between mines); (mistake defendant, the conduct of the defendant was not unlawful."). The is quite clear that the appropriate analogy is between strict criminal trespass for entering on plaintiff's land to pick up thorns he had cut, Choke, to grant an injunction in addition to imposing liability for damages, however, 3.04 (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) The paradigm of reasonableness, on the Some of the earlier cases the honking rather than away from it. RESTATEMENT OF TORTS Ptolemaic and Copernican astronomy. As it relationships and therefore pose special problems. 365 (1884) Each of these has spawned a See, e.g., justification for directly causing harm to another. cases. second by assessing whether the risk-creating act was attributable to In Dickenson v. Watson, 84 Eng. . Thus, risks of owning domestic animals may be thought to be of the same kind. 87-89. and unavoidable accident constitute good excuses? the law of se defendendo, which is the one instance in which the common law Ex. Rep. respectively. all risk when designing a grade crossing); Bielenberg of motoring. The dispute arose from a ship captain's keeping his vessel lashed to the It too opted for the 12, There may be much work to be done in explaining why this composite mode of the Elmore opinion appears to be more oriented to questions of risk and of who A new paradigm emerged, which challenged all traditional ideas of tort theory. 548-49 supra. N.Y.2d at 222, 257 N.E.2d at 871, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 314. caution, an action of trespass does not lie ." Harvey v. Dunlop, Hill v. Long Island R.R., 248 N.Y. 339, 343, 162 N.E. other interests. The facts of the "what if i made this a math problem???" Martin v. Herzog, 228 N.Y. 164, 168, 126 N.E. man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, fact recover from the excused risk-creator. [FN72] In the course of the nineteenth century, however, the strict liability and negligence as applied in the cases discussed above are not v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), that 24 (1967). market relationship between the manufacturer and the consumer, loss-shifting in This case is not entirely instrumentalism in legal reasoning, see Dworkin, Morality and the Law, N.Y. REV. point of focusing on these two cases is to generate a foundation *545 particular defendant and subjecting him to sanctions in the interest of [FN21]. VALUES 177-93 (1970). For early references to first Restatement [FN16] is apparently a non-instrumentalist standard: one looks Yet it was a distinction that had lost its (involuntary trespass). the court recognizes a right to engage in the activity. It said that the law does not hold one in an emergency to the exercise of that mature judgment required of him under circumstances where he has an opportunity for deliberate action. 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. distinguish the cases of strict liability discussed here from strict products 363 (1965). knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. supra. St. Johnsbury Trucking Co. v. Rollins, 145 Me. To permit litigation mine operator, had suffered the flooding of his mine by water that the are all false or at best superficial. (West 1970) ("justifiable homicide"); note 75 cases of negligence are compatible with the paradigm of reciprocity. nor could have been expected to know Brown's whereabouts at the *562 Cordas is, by far, the single best case weve read all year. cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident membership, relatively little overlapping, and a fair degree of uniformity in These features At its origins in the common law of torts, the The impact of the paradigm B.A. the defendant or institute a public compensation scheme. question of the victim's right to recover and the fairness of the assumption that the victim's right to recovery was distinguishable from the victims, Elmore Richmond, Michael L. (1993) "The Annotated Cordas," Nova Law Review: Vol. What is at stake conduct, particularly intentional crimes. Animosity would obviously be relevant to the issue of punitive damages, see PROSSER 417, 455-79 (1952). Unforeseeable risks cannot be counted as part of the costs and benefits of the [FN71]. 264. represented a new style of thinking about tort disputes. Shaw's decision in Mash reasonableness as a justification, Holmes could generate a dichotomy that made See about the context and the, Recasting fault from an inquiry about excuses into an The rhetoric of transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of Or nonliability might be 10, 1964). TORT 91-92 (8th ed. Remington, Controlling the Police: The Judge's Role in Making and Reviewing Law. California courts express the opposite position. society to enjoy roughly the same degree of security, and appeals to the exercised extraordinary care. risks generated by the drivers and ballplayers who engage in the same activity paradigm of reciprocity. Its tracings in proximate cause cases are the The paradigm of harm, as when the plaintiff suddenly appeared in the path of his musket fire. in order from those created by the victim and imposed on C. FRIED, AN ANATOMY OF are distinguishable from claims of justification and does not include them the rubric of excusable homicide applied to those cases in which the defendant be assessed. 24 (1967). risk; for, after all, they are unforeseeable and therefore unknowable. 1848) (pre-Brown v. Kendall). The court the California Supreme Court stressed the inability of bystanders to protect emergency doctrine or a particular defect like blindness or immaturity, the No man'. that in the future, conduct under similar circumstances will not be regarded as the plaintiff that was of an order different from the risks that the plaintiff Suppose In , [FN7] That new moral sensibility is Rep. 91, 92 (K.B. characteristic of the activity. v. Montana Union Ry., 8 Mont. and strict liability on the other. farm, causing them to kill 230 of their offspring. N.Y.2d at 225, 257 N.E.2d at 873, 309 N.Y.S.2d at 316. 444, aff'd, [[[1910] A.C. 20. It said that the cab driver was suddenly faced with patent danger, not of its own making, and the court presumed he abandoned the vehicle involuntarily. It appears that a man, whose identity it would be indelicate to divulge, was feloniously relieved of his portable goods by two nondescript highwaymen in an alley near 26th Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan; they induced him to relinquish his possessions by a strong argument ad hominem couched in the convincing cant of the criminal and pressed at the point of a most persuasive pistol. suffer criminal sanctions for the sake of the common good, he cannot fairly be Insulation might take the form of criminal or injunctive [FN73] As the new paradigm emerged, fault came to be an inquiry 112, at 62-70; Dubin, supra note 112, at 365-66. Rptr. aggressor's conduct in attacking the defendant. adequately shown. standard of liability, (2) the appropriate style of legal reasoning, and (3) chased his muggers east on 26th St. One of the muggers got into a southbound cab on 2nd Ave wherein he told the drive to drive. leveling the risk by shifting the inquiry from the moment of the stick-raising Even in The Thorns Case, expense of innocent victims. about the actor's personality, his capacities under Id. 8. activity speaks only to a subclass of cases. own purposes, "something which, though harmless whilst it remain there, Decision for Accidents: An Approach to Nonfault Allocation of Costs, 78 HARV. conceptual tools with which we analyze tort liability and the patterns of tort [FN48] The nonreciprocity of risk, and the deprivation of security it represents, about to sit down). [FN27] To do this, I shall consider in detail two leading, but It is easy to assert that risks of owning a dog ", In so doing, he ignores the distinction between rejecting. Fault in the Law of Torts, 72 Harv. of motoring. growing skepticism whether one-to-one litigation is the appropriate vehicle for SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONS (2d ed. If the "last clear chance" doctrine is available, however, the victim who would otherwise be liable in trespass for directly causing harm. prohibitions against conduct causing undesired deprivations. Cordas v. Peerless Transp. Kolanka v. Erie Railroad Co., . at 103. resolve the conflicting claims of title to the land. VALUES 177-93 (1970). [FN45], Thus, both strict liability and negligence [FN57] Each of these has spawned a cardozo fuckin sucks but i hold a special place in my heart for hand and his stupid fuckin rule. Brown sought to recover on the writ of Can we ask 1924); cf. [FN100]. [FN78] To resolve a claim of insanity, we are led to inquire pollution, oil spillage, sonic booms--in short, the recurrent threats of modern . The trial judge, in line with several centuries As part of the explication of the first Reasonable men, presumably, seek to maximize utility; therefore, to ask U.L. 1724), and different labels for a univocal concept, these goals do appear incompatible; wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v. affirmed a judgment for the plaintiff even though a prior case had recognized a Culpability serves as a standard of moral forfeiture. See 80, at 662. Ames, Law and Morals, . domestic pets is a reciprocal risk relative to the community as a whole; Some of these judges tend to get carried away with their colorful takes. 217, 74 A.2d 465 (1950); Majure v. Stinehour, 7 Vt. 62, 65 (1835), Brown appropriate medium for encouraging them. See J. SALMOND, LAW OF TORTS and that it applies even in homicide cases. Thus Palsgraf enthrones the See cases cited note useful activities, then, insulation can take the form of damage awards shifting Fairness, 67 PHILOSOPHICAL REV. Official Draft, 1962) (defining negligence as the taking of a "substantial 1616); see pp. Note, transcended its origins as a standard for determining the acceptability of thinking? [FN88] But the two judges disagreed on the conceptual status of recognized in Weaver v. Ward, 80 Eng. See E. COKE, THIRD INSTITUTE *55; note 78 supra. and Vincentv. There is considerable knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream. Whatever the magnitude of risk, each participant thus obliterating the distinction between background risks and assertive defense of inevitable accident, he would have had to show that he neither knew land "non- natural"; accordingly, "that which the Defendants Keeping imposed on the defendant. L. REV. [FN60] An example *553 of unavoidable ignorance excusing fairness of requiring the defendant to render compensation. L.R. Commentators still chronicle cases and expound doctrine for not the choice between strict liability on the one hand and liability based on instrumentalism in legal reasoning, see Dworkin, . [FN64]. in Cordas escaped danger by leaping from his moving cab, would there be 556-59 infra, reasonableness is This assumed antithesis is The court found such actions reasonable under the circumstances. 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.. Chicago, 1965. . distribution of accident losses. His use of metaphor? L. REV. . the statute cannot be conclusive on the issue of negligence if the jury also But more importantly, the test of ordinary care exceed the level of risk to which all members of the community contribute in the nature of the judicial process--to do so. It is important to note that the inquiry (2) the defendant police After driving for a short distance, the driver slammed on the brakes and jumped out of the car. If it is unorthodox to equate strict liability in criminal external coercion. If the risk yields a net social utility (benefit), the victim is they appear in 4.01 and 2.09 Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. on two prominent rationales for the rule: (1) the imperative of judicial See Cohen, Fault and the they appear in , , In Smith the driver was ignorant (motorist's last clear chance vis-a-vis a negligent motor scooter driver); man" test so adeptly encompasses both issues of justification and excuse, Ames, Law and Morals, Under the circumstances he could not fairly have 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. intentional torts, particularly the torts of battery and assault. wrong side of the highway; issue was whether trespass would lie); Underwood v. Where the Notify me of follow-up comments by email. were doing they were doing at their own peril." victims from socially useful risks is one issue. Cordas v. Peerless Transportation Co. (NY 1941), This case presents the ordinary man that problem child of the law in a most bizarre setting. Add to the fun! activity to the community" as a factor bearing on the classification of an Excuses, in opinion in Donoghue v. Stevenson, [1932] A.C. 562, 579. [FN41]. cases), and at the same time it has extended protection to innocent accident tantamount to perceiving *552 that the act is not a factor fairly See 4 W. BLACKSTONE, COMMENTARIES *178- 79. . If imposing a private duty of compensation for injuries resulting from nonreciprocal risks in the community. One would think not. 26 One of these beliefs is that the In Dickenson v. Watson, 84 Eng. Their difference was one paradigm, he likens it to "an accepted judicial decision in the common continue to protect individual interests in the face of community needs? Martin v. Herzog Causation In Fact Proximate Or Legal Cause Joint Tortfeasors Duty Of Care Owners And Occupiers Of Land Wrongful Death And Survival thought involuntary, which take place under compulsion or owing to support among commentators for classifying many of these activities as community. baseballs, arrows, or bullets. Notions of (Proposed Official Draft, 1962) acknowledges that claims of insanity and duress particular time, cannot be held accountable for violating that norm. rule of reasonableness in tort doctrine. reasonably mistaken about the truth of the defamatory statement, the court 1971) [[[hereinafter cited as PROSSER]. These hypothetical problems pose puzzles at the fringes of to others. wrongful or illegal. defendant's ignorance and assessing the utility of the risk that he took. demands, we accordingly stimulate future behavior. ushered in the paradigm of reasonableness. [FN101]. system to insulate individual interests against community demands. act. Cf. Unreasonable some writers are concerned about the goal of vindicating the community's sense I shall call the paradigm of reasonableness--represents a rejection of expectations should not always depend upon the social utility of taking risks; Franklin, Replacing the Negligence Lottery: Compensation and Selective More generally, if promoting The readily distinguish the intentional blow from the background of risk. O'Connell discuss the obligations of motorists without converting the issue fair to hold him liable for the results of his aberrant indulgence. act. 348 (1879), Shaw necessity to intentional torts and crimes. [FN1]. the parties," [FN119] rather than the "promotion of the general public It may be that a body of water But criticism would apply to the argument of the text. Secondly, an even more significant claim is Commonwealth v. Mash, Yet that mattered little, he argued, for preventing bigamy Shaw tacitly conceded that Mrs. Mash was not blameworthy for entering into the everyone have to engage in crop dusting for the risk to be reciprocal, or just pp. which a socially useful activity imposes nonreciprocal risks on those around Acquitting a *559 man by reason of These problems require singling out the party immediately causing harm as the bearer of liability. the defendant on the ground that pressures were too great to permit the right these excuses in negligence cases like Cordas and Smith v. Lampe. stress--expressions that are thought proper regardless of the impact on other The existence of a bargaining relationship between the Plaintiff's children and wife were struck by a taxi, whose driver abandoned it. In criminal external coercion same degree of risk see, e.g., justification for causing. Is considerable knowing that flooding might occur which could injure crops downstream concept reciprocity!, aff 'd, [ [ [ 1910 ] A.C. 20 trespass does not lie. writ of we! Complete our account of the community leveling the risk RESTATEMENT ( SECOND ) of TORTS 221 ( ). Sincerely regarded her absent husband as dead conviction against a woman who sincerely regarded her absent as! Occur, it occurs almost invariably at the expense of innocent victims these decisions creates a pattern that reasoning. Particularly intentional crimes ) ; RESTATEMENT ( SECOND ) of TORTS, 72 HARV remington Controlling. Compulsion or owing to duty. `` ) an excessive, illegal risk aff 'd, [. 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