For 10 points, name this action that gave rise to two railroad platform tort actions, one of which was successful because the slippery object in question had been there for a long time without the defendant picking it up, causing the plaintiff to fall in a cartoonish manner.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the Massachusetts Supreme Court, held that the plaintiff suffering this action did not give rise to negligence because the object in question could have been dropped "within a minute" by anyone. In a case ten years later from the same court, the plaintiff suffering this action successfully showed negligence because the instrument in question "felt dry [and] gritty." For 10 points, name this action that gave rise to two railroad platform tort actions, one of which was successful because the slippery object in question had been there for a long time without the defendant picking it up, causing the plaintiff to fall in a cartoonish manner.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, writing for the Massachusetts Supreme Court, held that the plaintiff suffering this action did not give rise to negligence because the object in question could have been dropped "within a minute" by anyone.
{slipping on a banana peel} [accept word forms and equivalents]