Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co., 248 N.Y. 339, 162 N.E. 99 (N.Y. 1928), was a decision by the New York Court of Appeals (the highest state court in New York) 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 concept of proximate cause, a limitation of negligence with respect to scope of liability.
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