First Bank v. Phillips

PRESIDING JUSTICE BYRNE

delivered the opinion of the court:

Defendants and counterplaintiffs Mercedes and Mervyn C. Phillips, Jr., appeal pro se from a judgment granting the various counter-defendants, including plaintiff First Bank, as successor by merger to CIB Bank, summary judgment (see 735 ILCS 5/2 — 1005(c) (West 2006)) on defendants’ counterclaim. We dismiss the appeal.

Plaintiffs predecessor, CIB Bank, sued defendants for damages and replevin, based on a promissory note that Mervyn Phillips signed and a security agreement that pledged Mercedes Phillips’s 1955 Mercedes automobile as…