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Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co. , 162 N. E. 99 (N. Y. 1928), was a decision by the New York Court of Appeals (the highest court in the state) written by Chief Judge Benjamin Cardozo, a leading figure in the development of American common law and later a Supreme Court justice. Palsgraf is a landmark in tort law that helped establish the limitations of negligence. Moving Companies.

Facts

A passenger carrying a package, while hurrying to catch and board a moving train, appeared to the Railroad's (Defendant's) employee to be falling. The employee attempted to help the passenger and caused a package the passenger was holding to fall on the rails. Unbeknownst to the employee, the package contained fireworks, and the employee's effort to help caused the package to explode. The shock reportedly knocked down scales at the other end of the platform (although later accounts suggest that a panicking bystander may have upset the scale), which injured Mrs. Helen Palsgraf (Plaintiff). Palsgraf sued the Railroad, claiming her injury resulted from negligent acts of the employee. The court found for Palsgraf (Plaintiff) by verdict from a jury, Long Island Railroad appealed the judgment.

Opinion of the court

The Court of Appeals reversed and dismissed Palsgraf's complaint, deciding that the relationship of the guard's action to Palsgraf's injury was too indirect to make him liable. SuperPages from Verizon has listings for many more Long Island businesses.