Legal Opinion
DeMarco v. Ecklund
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided June 27, 2003No. 2-02-0218 RelPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PRESIDING JUSTICE HUTCHINSON
delivered the opinion of the court:
Plaintiffs, Anthony and Piera DeMarco, brought a legal malpractice action against defendants, attorney Gary Ecklund and his law firm, Schlueter, Ecklund, Olson, Barrett, Mayfield & Davitt, for failing to file a breach of contract lawsuit before it became time barred. In the contract at issue, plaintiffs sold real estate to a buyer, Bruce Swanson, with a provision requiring Swanson to construct a water detention area on the property by September 1, 1990. Swanson never built the detention pond, and plaintiffs retained defendants as…
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