Toups v. Washington

From a judgment in favor of defendants, Joseph A. Washington and Nola Cabs, Inc., dismissing the suit of plaintiff, Dorris Marie Toups, for damages to her automobile in the amount of $227.25, plaintiff prosecutes this appeal.

On Sunday, March 7, 1948, at the hour of 4:45 p.m., plaintiff was driving her 1941 Ford Convertible Coupe. In the left traffic lane of Canal Street towards the river and proceeded to cross the lakeside intersection of Claiborne and Canal Streets, at a speed of about fifteen or twenty miles per hour; as she approached the riverside intersection of Claiborne and Canal…