La Salle National Bank & Trust Co. v. City of Chicago

LaSalle National Bank and Trust Company (the bank), as trustee under a land trust agreement involving certain property in downtown Chicago for which the bank possessed a permit to connect its sewers to those of the city of Chicago, appeals from the entry by the circuit court of Cook County of a directed verdict and judgment in favor of the city. The judgment was entered by the court after hearing evidence on the bank’s complaint which alleged that the city’s revocation of the bank’s sewer connection permit should be enjoined on the grounds of equitable estoppel and unconstitutionality as a…