Bell v. Terminal Railroad Assn.

Plaintiff, in seeking to recover $25,000 damages for personal injuries, alleges that he was a fireman in the service of defendant and was injured in attempting to alight from a moving engine, the steps of which were covered with ice and snow which caused him to slip and fall to the ground.

The negligence charged was a failure of defendant “to provide plaintiff with a reasonably safe place and reasonably safe instrumentalities for the performance of his work.”

The answer was a general denial, with a plea of assumption of risk, and pleas of negligence of plaintiff “in assuming a position upon the…