Avi K.: “5. Once someone in Posen became a Reformer so Rabbi Akiva Eiger, upon the wife’s request, ordered him to give a get. He refused so RAE read him the first mishna in Kiddushin regarding how a married woman becomes single. The guy laughed, walked out of the office and fell down the stairs.”
The last two words should be “and died” (thereby making his wife single).
(I’m not sure if that would be clear to s.o. who doesn’t already know the story).