Pertolanitz v. Chicago Transit Authority

This appeal is taken by the plaintiff from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County in the amount of $1,370 entered in favor of the plaintiff in a suit brought by her for personal injuries allegedly sustained as a result of an accident involving an automobile driven by defendant Arnold Bumbulis, an automobile driven by one Edward Backus, and a Chicago Transit Authority express bus. The plaintiff was a passenger on the bus.

From the record it appears that on September 3, 1954 in the forenoon a Ford station wagon driven by Edward Backus entered Archer Avenue and headed in a southwest…