Templeton v. Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co.

MEMORANDUM

LEIGHTON, District Judge.

This is a diversity suit by Frank H. Templeton, Jr., a Wisconsin citizen, one of two beneficiaries of an inter vivos trust, who claims that the defendant Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Company of Chicago, an Illinois corporate trustee, has breached a contract and seeks to collect a larger termination fee than it was entitled to receive; that it has charged for extraordinary services not performed; that it has wrongfully withheld trust funds in order to pay itself the attorney fees and costs of this litigation; and that plaintiff is entitled to…