San Antonio Public Service Co. v. Wellman

Appellees brought this suit against appellant to recover damages on account of personal injuries inflicted upon and sustained by Mrs. Wellman, by appellant, while she was a passenger riding on one of appellant’s cars. As she was undertaking to leave the car at the corner of Houston and North Plores street, in the city of San Antonio, she slipped on a banana peeling and was thrown to the floor. The main ground of negligence was that appellant permitted the piece of banana peeling to be on the floor of the front platform of the street car, close to the little step that leads down from the main…