Larsen v. Johannsen

UHLENHOPP, Justice.

This case involves our statute which provides that motorists shall not stop, park, or leave vehicles standing on the traveled portion of highways. Code 1973, § 321.354.

At the time of the events, the traveled portion of a north-south oiled rural highway in Shelby County, Iowa, was 19 feet wide. A rather narrow crushed-rock driveway led to the west from the highway into a farmstead. At the time of the incident, rain had been falling for about two hours, so the highway and the ground were wet. The farmyard was muddy.

Dennis L. Larsen, operating a car in which plaintiff Rose Ann…