Brown v. Chicago Transit Authority

Plaintiff brought suit to recover damages for personal injury as the result of a fall upon a stairway operated and maintained by the defendant, Chicago Transit Authority. The cause was submitted to a jury which returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Subsequently, the trial court granted defendant’s post-trial motion for a judgment notwithstanding the verdict. The plaintiff has ' appealed that order.

In seeking to reverse the trial court, plaintiff challenges the propriety of the trial court’s granting of the judgment notwithstanding the verdict and contends that sufficient evidence was…