A Selection of Cases on the Law of Torts

This 1893 casebook offers a fascinating window into how American tort law was taught at the height of the Harvard Law School's pedagogical influence. Roscoe Pound's preface sets the intellectual stage, urging students to see connections across legal domains rather than treating them as isolated compartments. The collection presents landmark cases on intentional interference, assault, battery, and the emerging doctrine of negligence, revealing how the boundaries of civil liability were being actively debated and defined. These aren't dusty relics, they're the foundational decisions that shaped modern tort law as we know it. For legal scholars, historians of American jurisprudence, or anyone curious about the roots of how we assign responsibility for harm, this casebook offers both primary source material and a model of rigorous legal analysis from an era when the law was still actively inventing itself.