Miskunas v. Chicago Transit Authority

The plaintiff appeals from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County entered on September 13,1974, sustaining the defendant’s motion to dismiss after the close of the plaintiff’s case.

The issue on appeal is whether the plaintiff failed to establish a prima facie case of negligence such that no contrary verdict based upon that evidence could ever stand.

On January 6, 1971, the plaintiff, then aged 38, rode a Chicago Transit Authority bus home from work and got off at the northeast corner of Albany and 39th Streets in the City of Chicago. She was wearing boots with low, flat heels, and she…