FIFTEEN FIFTY STATE ST. BUILDING CORP. v. CITY OF CHICAGO

No. 34799.

15 Ill.2d 408 (1958)

155 N.E.2d 97

FIFTEEN FIFTY NORTH STATE BUILDING CORPORATION, Appellee, v. THE CITY OF CHICAGO et al. — (COSMOPOLITAN NATIONAL BANK OF CHICAGO, Trustee, Appellant.)

Supreme Court of Illinois.

Rehearing denied January 22, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

L. LOUIS KARTON, of Chicago, (ARTHUR FRANKEL, of counsel,) for appellant.

JOHN C. MELANIPHY, Corporation Counsel, of Chicago, (SYDNEY R. DREBIN, of counsel,) for certain appellees, KIRKLAND, FLEMING, GREEN, MARTIN & ELLIS, of Chicago, (HOWARD ELLIS, VERNON M. WELSH, and FRANK L. WINTER, of counsel,) for appellee Fifteen Fifty North State Building Corporation, and VERNON R. LOUCKS, of Chicago, (CHARLES O. LOUCKS and CLARKSON W. LOUCKS, of counsel,) for appellee James L. Henry.


Decree reversed.

Mr. JUSTICE HOUSE delivered the opinion of the court:

This case involves the validity of a 1956 amendment to the Chicago zoning ordinance which rezoned certain property now owned by Cosmopolitan National Bank, as trustee, from Volume 3 to Volume 4 residential usage. The action was commenced in the circuit court of Cook County by Fifteen Fifty North State Building Corporation on June 21, 1956, as a suit for injunction and declaratory judgment...

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