Bowles v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority

PALLADINO, Judge.

Isabel Bowles (Appellant) appeals from an order of the Court of Common Pleas of Philadelphia County (trial court) granting summary judgment in favor of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) and against Appellant. We affirm.

This action was commenced by Appellant to recover damages for injuries she sustained in a slip and fall accident which occurred on December 16,1983. On that date, Appellant was disembarking from a SEPTA trolley at the King Manor Station, when she slipped and fell on either a thin layer of ice or frost on the wooden plank platform.…