This is an appeal from the dismissal of a counterclaim in an action to foreclose a reverse mortgage. Mary Muraida held title to her condominium unit in Oak Lawn pursuant to a 1991 land trust as to which defendant-appellant Standard Bank and Trust was trustee. On July 9, 2009, she entered into a reverse mortgage on the unit.
James R. Stevens is the first named plaintiff of a group of former minority shareholders of a corporation known as Beeland Management LLC. They claimed that Beelands owner and majority shareholder, as well as Beelands two managers, misappropriated Beelands trademarks and other intellectual property to the detriment of that corporation.
Press Release: Champaign-Urbana MSA. The not seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased to 4.9 percent in August 2015 from 6.5 percent in August 2014.
Press Release: Rockford MSA Highlights. Area employers advertised for 7,500 positions in August and approximately 84 percent sought full-time employment, according to Help Wanted OnLine data compiled by the Conference Board.
The Chicago Zoological Society, the defendant here, does business as Brookfield Zoo on land owned by the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, with which it has a written agreement. In 2012, the zoo was sued for negligence by a woman who claimed that she had sustained injuries when she tripped and fell on one of the zoos paved pathways nearly two years earlier.