Exchange National Bank v. Harris

This appeal involves the issue of whether the chancery division of the circuit court of Cook County properly denied plaintiffs request for injunctive relief. Plaintiff sought to restrain defendants from distributing any portion of decedent’s trust pending resolution of plaintiff’s two law division cases in which decedent was named as a party defendant.

Plaintiff Exchange National Bank of Chicago, in January 1983, filed two suits in the circuit court of Cook County, law division, one against Wilmette Partners and the second suit against Kenton Court Partnership to enforce payment on loans which…