LIBERTY NAT. BANK v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 34087.

10 Ill.2d 137 (1956)

139 N.E.2d 235

LIBERTY NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, Trustee, et al., Appellees, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO, Appellant.

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 23, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

JOHN C. MELANIPHY, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago, (SYDNEY R. DREBIN, HARRY H. POLLACK, and HAROLD M. NUDELMAN, of counsel,) for appellant.

MAURICE J. NATHANSON, of Chicago, (L. LOUIS KARTON, of counsel,) for appellees.


Judgment reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE DAVIS delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiff bank, as trustee, and the individual plaintiffs, as beneficiaries of the trust, brought an action in the circuit court of Cook County against the defendant, the city of Chicago, asking the court to declare invalid the city's amendatory zoning ordinance of December 3, 1942, insofar as it rezoned plaintiffs' property from commercial to single-family residence use, and to restrain...

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