Torts: Basic Fluency in a Fundamental Legal Language *(Revised for Fall '25)

Resource 4 . 2 . 1 . 1

13 minutes

Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad ("THE tort case")

Jordan Wallace-Wolf

New York Court of Appeals

248 N.Y. 339

1928-05-29

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