Anjou v. Boston Elevated Railway Co.

The plaintiff arrived on one of defendant’s cars on the upper level of the Dudley Street terminal; other passengers arrived oh same car, but it does not appear how many. She waited until the crowd had left the platform, when she inquired of one of defendant’s uniformed employees the direction to another car. He walked along a narrow platform, and she, following a few feet behind him toward the stairway he had indicated, was injured by slipping upon a banana peel. It was described by several who examined it in these terms: it “ felt dry and gritty as if there were dirt upon it,” as if…