Swiastyn v. St. Joseph Light & Power Co.

MAUGHMER, Commissioner.

The plaintiff, Lydia Swiastyn, received a verdict and judgment of $7,000.00 in damages for injuries received when she fell while alighting from defendant’s bus. Plaintiff’s petition charged that defendant allowed “ice and packed snow” to accumulate on the bus steps, and that in the exercise of the highest degree of care, it should have removed same or warned plaintiff of the “slippery and dangerous condition”, but failed to do so and as a direct result plaintiff suffered severe injuries. Plaintiff did not submit on failure to warn, but solely on failure to remove.…