Dahline v. City of Seattle

— On the forenoon of January 11,1930, the respondent Edna Dahline, while alighting from one of appellant’s street cars, at White Center, slipped and fell because of the presence office and compact snow on the step of the car, as alleged by the respondents in their complaint. The appellant denied the charge of negligence that it had permitted ice and snow to accumulate on its car step, and by way of an affirmative defense alleged that whatever injuries Mrs. Dah-line may have sustained were due to her own negligence. These affirmative allegations were denied by the respondents in their reply.

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