Facio v. Bellone

This suit results from an intersectional automobile collision which occurred at the corner of Dorgenois and Palmyra Streets in New Orleans, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, on December 2, 1946.

Plaintiff, Facio, in his 1940 Pontiac auto-mobile, was on Dorgenois Street going in a downtown direction, and defendant Bellone, in his 1935 Ford coupe, was going in Palmyra Street toward the Mississippi River. Palmyra Street is a one-way street, vehicles being permitted to operate on it only in the direction in which the defendant was driving his Ford. Dorgenois is a two-way street with a single…