Kortlander v. Chicago Transit Authority

MR. PRESIDING- JUSTICE DEMPSEY

delivered the opinion of the court.

This is a personal injury action against the Chicago Transit Authority. The plaintiff appeals from a judgment entered in behalf of the defendant after a jury verdict, claiming that there were errors in instructions and in evidentiary rulings and that the argument of the defense counsel was improper and prejudicial.

The case of the plaintiff depended solely upon her own testimony. On the afternoon of October 28, 1958, the plaintiff was a passenger on the defendant’s northbound Michigan Avenue bus. As the bus neared Ohio Street she…