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Denault v. Cote

Case Date: 03/15/2001
Court: 3rd District Appellate
Docket No: 3-00-0460 Rel

March 15, 2001

No. 3--00--0460

IN THE APPELLATE COURT OF ILLINOIS

THIRD DISTRICT

A.D., 2001

JOHN DENAULT and MEGAN
DENAULT,
              Plaintiffs-Appellants,

              v.

EUGENE COTE and FRANCIS
COTE,
              Defendants-Appellees.

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)		 Appeal from the Circuit Court
for the 21st Judicial Circuit,
Kankakee County, Illinois

No. 99--LM--1048

Honorable
Duane J. O'Connor
Judge, Presiding

JUSTICE BRESLIN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs John and Megan Denault filed an action against defendants Eugeneand Francis Cote, claiming they violated the Illinois Residential Real PropertyDisclosure Act (Disclosure Act) (765 ILCS 77/1 et seq. (West1998)). The trial court dismissed the action as untimely. When the plaintiffsfiled a second action based on fraud in the same real estate transaction as thefirst case, the court dismissed the Denaults