Riley v. Rhode Island Company

On the first day of March, 1907, the plaintiff, in descending from a street car operated by the defendant, slipped from the step of the car and fell, and was injured. . A snowstorm had commenced the night before, and, with intermissions of rain, continued during that day. The average temperature until after the accident was below the freezing point.(1) It appeared in evidence that before starting upon the trip on which the accident occurred the conductor had removed from the step such snow and ice as had accumulated there, but that, after starting from the terminus of the route, ice or snow…