Palsgraf v. Long Island R. Co. that is. My 1L sense is tingling. I have this strange suspicion that this is an important case and that my torts professor is likely to include it in an exam questions.
I’ve been workin’ on the railroad.
September 30, 2004 by
I’m likely to include the dissent in audition reading for a spring musical.
Some words of advice: don’t concentrate on cases in torts, concentrate on methods of recovery and simply use the cases as illustrations of how such a method can be used. The typical law school torts exam is a 4 page long hypo where the main character is a mixture between Mr. Magoo and Charles Manson, followed by the single, and much dreaded, instruction: identify all possible torts and discuss their merits.