Legal Opinion
Cosman v. Ford Motor Co.
Appellate Court of Illinois
Decided November 14, 1996No. 1-95-2081PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Cahill
We here enter the complex world of warranties to repair motor vehicles and the impact upon them under the federal Magnuson-Moss Act (15 U.S.C. §§ 2301 through 2312 (1994)).
When in 1994 Elmer and Josephine Cosman sued the manufacturers of a motor home they purchased in 1989, they included two counts in the complaint under the Magnuson-Moss Act. Although the two repair warranties the Cosmans received when they purchased their motor home ran for five and six years, the trial court believed, not without reason, that it was compelled to apply a four-year statute of limitations under the Illinois…
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