Ivy v. Chicago Transit Authority

This is a personal injury case with verdict and judgment for defendants. Plaintiff has appealed.

Plaintiff was injured September 22, 1953, after alighting from an eastbound CTA bus at a stop near the southwest corner of the intersection of Drexel Boulevard and 47th Street in Chicago. She had stepped off the bottom step of the side door of the bus following two friends who had ridden with her. There is no dispute about her exercise of care as she stepped from the floor of the bus to the bottom treadle step, or as she held onto the door rail while stepping to the street with her left foot. The…