McQueeney v. Catholic Bishop of Chicago

This is an appeal by defendant from a judgment entered in favor of plaintiff on a verdict of the jury for $30,000 for damages for personal injuries sustained on the premises of St. Bernard’s church. A post-trial motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and, in the alternative, for a new trial was overruled.

The instance of which plaintiff complains occurred on January 28, 1956. Plaintiff was nearly 86 years old at that time. She had been a regular attendant at St. Bernard’s church for more than fourteen years. On that day, as she left the church, she walked down the steps from the…