Baltimore Transit Co. v. Brooks

The successful plaintiff below was injured as he stepped from a trackless trolley onto an isolated patch of sheet ice on the street between the curb and the trolley, and fell. The owner of the trolley appeals on the ground that the case should not have gone to the jury because “the conflicting and speculative evidence” offered by the plaintiff “failed to disclose any breach of duty on the part of the Defendant to provide the Plaintiff with a reasonably safe place to alight.”

Implicit in the question presented, as the appellant poses it, is that the law is that the operator of a streetcar owes…