Belder v. Omaha & Council Bluffs Street Railway Co.

In this case, plaintiff sued for -damages for personal injuries sustained when he slipped on a banana peel on the step of a street car owned and operated by defendant. The jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for $400 and judgment was entered thereon. From the overruling of its motion for a new trial, the defendant appeals.

The plaintiff alleges in his petition that the proximate cause of the injury was the negligence of the defendant “in failing to remove from the rear platform of said street car foreign substances which had accumulated there, the presence of which defendant knew or should…