Sims v. Chicago Transit Authority

The Supreme Court has reversed this court’s decision in Sims v. Chicago Transit Authority, 351 Ill. App. 314, and has remanded the case to this court with directions to decide the issues relating to defendant’s motion for new trial. We are, therefore, called upon to decide two questions: 1. Was the verdict contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence? 2. Was it reversible error to allow the issue of the carrier and passenger relation to go to the jury?

As to the first point, the evidence as set forth in our previous opinion is that shortly before the accident plaintiff got off defendant’s…