Hickey v. Chicago Transit Authority

MR. PRESIDING JUSTICE SCHWARTZ

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is an appeal from a judgment for $15,000 entered on a verdict in a personal injury action involving plaintiff’s fall in a Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus. The principal issues on appeal are whether the verdict is against the manifest weight of the evidence, whether prejudicial comments were made by plaintiff’s attorney in his closing argument and by the trial judge during the course of the trial; whether evidence of plaintiff’s reputation for sobriety and truthfulness was properly admitted, and the propriety of certain…