Duhl v. Nash Realty Inc.

PRESIDING JUSTICE ROMITI

delivered the opinion of the court:

The plaintiffs, relying on the defendant realtors’ advice as to the value and saleability of their house, purchased a new house through defendants. When they discovered that the defendants’ representations were in error, they sued in fraud, negligence, contract and for violation of the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 121½, par. 261 et seq.). The trial court dismissed the complaint as not stating a cause of action. We agree that the claim for breach of contract did not state a cause of…