35 So. 2d 472 - Ledoux v. Beyt’s Empirical Analysis

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4 federal appellate · 6 state decisions

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1. ““Melancon, the truck driver, testified that only two or three minutes elapsed between the time he stopped and the time he noticed plaintiff’s car approaching from the rear, and in that interval he could not possibly have displayed the flares which he carried in the truck, as required by the ‘Flare Law’. Whilst the statute uses the word ‘immediately’ in providing how soon ■ after coming to a stop the driver shall display his lighted flares, ordinary rea soning forces the court to take the time involved in getting the flares out; lighting them and placing them on the highway into consideration, as an element in construing what is meant by thd word ‘immediately* and it has been held in certain cases that anywhere from two-to five minutes, depending on the circumstances, is not an unreasonable time to allow for a compliance with the terms of the statute.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Clements v. Amerman