Vermeil v. Jefferson Trust & Savings Bank

PRESIDING JUSTICE STOUDER

delivered the opinion of the court:

Jefferson Trust and Savings Bank of Peoria (the bank) appeals from the judgment entered for Stanley M. Vermeil (Vermeil) on his contract claim, from the dismissal of counts I through III of its counterclaim, from the judgment on the pleadings of counts IV through VI of its counterclaim, and from the judgment striking with prejudice its first and second affirmative defenses. In 1976 the bank entered into a contract with the plaintiff-counterdefendant, Vermeil, who at that time was the president and chairman of the board of the bank,…