Wash., B. A. Elec. R. Co. v. Fitch

Marguerite Fitch, the appellee, was on January 12th, 1925, a passenger on a train operated by the appellant, which left Annapolis for Baltimore at 7.20 A.M. When the train reached its Baltimore terminal, Miss Fitch, in attempting to leave the car in which she had been riding, slipped on the steps leading to the station platform, fell, and was injured. She attributed the accident to the icy, slippery condition of the car steps, and asserted that her injuries were directly caused by the negligence of the appellant in allowing the steps to be in that condition, and called upon it to compensate…