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Perhaps the most discussed and debated of all tort cases, Palsgraf v. ... The fact of the Palsgraf case goes as follows:
Holding a ticket to Rockaway Beach on the Long Island Railroad, Helen Palsgraf was waiting on the platform at the East New York station when a train arrived. ... Palsgraf, injuring her. ... More concisely, Justice Cardozo stated that Palsgraf must "sue in her own right for a wrong personal to her, and not as the vicarious beneficiary of a breach of duty to another". ... Virtually immediately after the Palsgraf decision, the Restatement of Torts accepted the majority view in that case--that there is no duty, and hence no negligence and, therefore, never liability to the "unforeseeable plaintiff". ... Palsgraf was, what her hopes and dreams were, whether she had any family, nor even the precise nature of her injury.
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Approximate Pages = 5.7
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