LaSalle Nat. Bank v. SKIDMORE, OWINGS

PRESIDING JUSTICE CAHILL

delivered the opinion of the court:

We reverse a summary judgment where the trial court found, as a matter of law, that the owners of the Apparel Center in Chicago (Center) knew or should have known not later than 1977 that the heating problems that plagued their building were wrongfully caused. Suit was not filed until 1986, outside the four-year statute of limitations if the date fixed by the trial court is correct. We disagree, finding that the facts before us do not lead to the conclusion, as a matter of law, that the statute was triggered no later than 1977. To so…