Branch v. Philadelphia Transportation Co.

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Musmanno,

This is an appeal from a compulsory nonsuit entered by the court below against the plaintiff in a wrongful death action resulting from an accident which occurred in Philadelphia November 29, 1941, when Elizabeth Sheridan, plaintiff’s mother, fell on a subway platform owned and maintained by the defendant Philadelphia Transportation Company.

The cause of the fall was an act which has become more familiar in analogy, simile and cartoon than in actuality: Elizabeth Sheridan slipped on a banana peel. This proverbially slippery substance lurked amid the accumulation…