Reese v. Forsythe Mergers Group, Inc.

Plaintiff, Roger Reese, appeals from the trial court’s order granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment pursuant to counts I, III, and IV of his complaint and the court’s granting the defendants’ section 2 — 619 motion (735 ILCS 5/2 — 619 (West 1994)) to dismiss pursuant to count V of his complaint. The trial court determined that a binding agreement did not exist between Reese and the defendants and that the alleged partial performance by the parties was insufficient to take any oral agreement out of the statute of frauds (740 ILCS 80/1 et seq. (West 1994)). Further, the trial…