Thiaville v. Toups

This is a suit for damages resulting from an automobile collision. Plaintiff, Miss Odette Thiaville, alleges that, on November 12, 1944 at about 7 a.m., while she was driving her automobile on Gentilly Highway in the city of New Orleans in the direction of Chef Menteur, Louisiana, she encountered a very heavy fog, which was so dense as to make further driving exceedingly dangerous; that she pulled her car off of the roadway and onto the shoulder thereof, where she turned off her engine and parked with her lights burning; that, while she was thus parked, an automobile owned and operated by…