In Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Company, involving a woman injured by an accidentally dropped package of fireworks that exploded as it was run over by a train, the railroad should not have been held liable for negligence because:
A) Palsgraf should not have been standing so close to the tracks
B) railroad employees repeatedly warned Palsgraf that she was standing in a dangerous location
C) there was nothing about the package that would suggest it was dangerous if dropped
D) the railroad employees acted in an unreasonable manner
E) none of the other choices

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The railroad should not have been held liable for negligence because there was nothing about the package that would suggest it was dangerous if dropped. The court ruled that the railroad employees could not have reasonably foreseen that dropping the package would cause harm to someone standing so far away.

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