Panelle v. Chicago Transit Authority

A jury in the circuit court of Cook County returned a verdict in favor of the defendant in an action brought by Ella Louise Panelle against the Chicago Transit Authority to recover damages for injuries alleged to have been suffered in a collision with a C.T.A. bus. The trial judge allowed the plaintiff’s motion for a new trial. The defendant appealed, and the Appellate Court reversed the order granting a new trial. (47 Ill. App. 2d 119.) This court allowed leave to appeal.

At the trial the attorney for the defendant made the following remarks in his argument to the jury: “Now, let me say…