Palmer v. Marceille

There is little dispute concerning the facts in this case. The plaintiff was taking her children to school in her automobile, and driving at a speed of about thirty miles an hour. The road had a tarvia surface 18 to 20 feet wide, beyond which there was a shoulder, and beyond that a ditch 3 feet deep’ and 6 feet wdde. She observed, about 500 feet ahead, a column of dense smoke, proceeding from, a fire at the road side, which entirely covered the right-hand side of the highway. She slackened speed, but to what extent she was unable to say, a car’s length before she entered the obscured area,…