Peterson v. City of Seattle

This is an action to recover damages for personal injuries sustained by respondent wife when she slipped and fell on a snow-covered street, after debarking from a passenger bus operated by appellant city. Hereinafter any reference to respondent will mean respondent wife.

In the evening on March 3, 1955, respondent boarded a bus near her residence to go downtown to a meeting. Earlier that afternoon it had snowed in parts of Seattle, including the area in which respondent lived.

The bus made a stop at its regular place at the intersection of California avenue and Brandon street. It then proceeded…