Hallmark Insurance v. Chicago Transit Authority

Plaintiffs seek to recover property damages they sustained when the driver of a stolen Chicago Transit Authority bus lost control of the vehicle and struck their building. They appeal from the trial court’s granting of summary judgment in favor of defendant.

Plaintiffs’ second amended complaint contains two counts of negligence against the CTA, the first based on a violation of the City of Chicago’s municipal code and the second on common law negligence. Plaintiffs allege that on January 12, 1982, an unnamed individual took unauthorized control of a CTA bus which was located in a bus bam owned…