Miller v. Chicago Transit Authority

The complaint alleges that plaintiff sustained injury on November 25, 1956, when he was assaulted by two men and pushed onto the tracks from defendant’s subway platform at State and Monroe Streets, Chicago. It was also alleged, pursuant to plaintiff’s theory of liability, that defendant knew or should have known that the platform was a dangerous place, because it had been the scene of previous assaults by vicious persons, thus imposing on defendant a duty to police its platform for the protection of persons such as plaintiff who were awaiting the arrival of defendant’s trains. The alleged…