Maros v. Jones

Mr. PRESIDING JUSTICE DIERINGER

delivered tire opinion of the court:

This is an appeal from a judgment of the Circuit Court of Cook County entered after a jury verdict for the defendants. The issues on appeal are whether the seller’s inability or unwillingness to comply with certain subdivision statutes and ordinances constituted a breach of contract which entitled plaintiffs to a return of their earnest money without tendering the balance of the purchase price, and whether the court erred by refusing to admit evidence of the seller’s noncompliance with those statutes and ordinances.

On February…