Kiesel v. Chicago Transit Authority

MS. JUSTICE LEWE

delivered the opinion of the court.

Defendant appeals from a judgment for the sum of $2,000 entered on the verdict of a jury in an action to recover damages for injuries sustained by plaintiff due to the alleged negligence of the defendant while plaintiff was a passenger on one of defendant’s buses. Defendant’s motions for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and for a new trial were overruled.

About three o’clock in the afternoon on February 15, 1950 plaintiff, aged forty-three, boarded one of defendant’s eastbound buses on Irving Park road at the intersection of Meade avenue,…