Stender v. National Boulevard Bank

This is an appeal by plaintiff, Raymond H. Stender, from the trial court’s order granting judgment in favor of defendants and dismissing the complaint. Plaintiff sued defendants for specific performance of an alleged contract to purchase an apartment complex. Legal title to the property was held in trusts by defendant banks, National Boulevard Bank of Chicago and Pullman Bank and Trust Company, as trustees. The beneficiary of those trusts was a partnership of which the two individual defendants, D. F. Antonelli, Jr., and William G. Barr, are the general partners.

On February 9, 1981, plaintiff…