(Source: Chicago Sun-Times column by Neil Steinberg, September 15, 2016)
CHICAGO — A commuter railroad delivers passengers into a station it does not own. That station is owned by another, national railroad. But the national railroad does not own the air rights above the station, secured by real estate investors constructing an office building the mid-1960s. All this takes place in Chicago. If a chunk of concrete falls from the plaza belonging to the real estate investor’s office building and hits one of the commuter railroad’s passengers, who is responsible for this tort?
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