COSMOPOLITAN NAT'L BK. OF CHICAGO v. Kobialka

The counterdefendants, Cosmopolitan National Bank of Chicago, as trustee under Trust No. 16477 (Cosmopolitan), and Morry Kogan and Fred Kogan, the beneficiaries of that trust, brought suit in the circuit court of Cook County to remove a cloud from the title to the apartment building which formed the res of the trust. The cloud consisted of an affidavit which had been filed in the recorder’s office by the counterplaintiffs, Michael H. Kobialka and Joseph V. Farago. Kobialka and Farago answered the complaint and filed a counterclaim for specific performance of a contract of sale for the…