CAREY v. NEAL, CORTINA AND ASSOCIATES

No. 1-90-0439.

576 N.E.2d 220 (1991)

216 Ill. App.3d 51

159 Ill.Dec. 551

James L. CAREY, Thomas J. Ronchetti, and Roncasm, Inc., an Illinois Corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NEAL, CORTINA AND ASSOCIATES, f/n/a Neal & Cortina, a Law Partnership, David W. Neal, Frank J. Cortina, Jr., Individually and d/b/a Neal, Cortina & Associates, f/k/a Neal & Cortina, A Law Partnership, Defendants (H. Wayne Neal and Rosemary Neal, Defendants-Appellees).

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

June 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas C. Baratta, Jr. & Associates, Melrose Park (Thomas C. Baratta, Jr., of counsel), for plaintiffs-appellants.

H. Wayne Neal and Rosemary Neal, Hinshaw, Culbertson, Moelmann, Hoban & Fuller, Chicago (Stephen R. Swofford, Thomas P. McGarry, Edward J. Rolwes, of counsel), for defendants-appellees.


Justice LINN delivered the opinion of the court:

Plaintiffs, James L. Carey, Thomas Ronchetti, and Roncasm, Inc., appeal from the dismissal of Counts IV and V of their complaint for damages arising out of the alleged fraud of various defendants. In the first three counts of their lawsuit, plaintiffs charge their former attorneys, Neal Cortina & Associates, a law partnership, and David W. Neal and Frank J. Cortina, Jr., individually (the "lawyer defendants"), with...

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