La Salle National Bank, Not Personally but as Trustee, Under Trust No. 17365, and Aaron B. Weiner v. 222 East Chestnut Street Corporation

DUFFY, Circuit Judge.

This suit was brought to recover $1,000,000 in damages for alleged malicious prosecution. It was tried to a jury. However, the trial judge granted defendant’s motion for a directed verdict.

This suit is merely one chapter in a long story of litigation between the parties dating back to 1956. In order to understand the issues in the instant case, it is necessary to set forth, as briefly as possible, some of the history of the previous litigation.

Plaintiff bank is the trustee under Trust 17365 and is land trustee of property located at 253 East Delaware Place, Chicago.…