COSMAN v. FORD MOTOR CO.

No. 1-95-2081.

674 N.E.2d 61 (1996)

285 Ill. App.3d 250

220 Ill.Dec. 790

Elmer and Josephine COSMAN, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. FORD MOTOR COMPANY, a foreign corporation, Georgie Boy Manufacturing Company, Inc., a foreign corporation, and Motorhomes Unlimited, Inc., an Illinois corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Fourth Division.

Rehearing Denied December 23, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stuart D. Gordon and E. Regan Daniels Shepley of Zukowski, Rogers, Flood & McArdle, Chicago, IL, for Appellants.

Beatriz M. Olivera of Vigil Berkley Schulz & Gordon, P.C., Chicago, IL, for Appellee Ford Motor Company.

Hinshaw & Culbertson, Chicago, IL (J. Marc Forkins and Kristin E. Hutson, of counsel), for Appellee Georgie Boy.

Leherer, Flaherty & Canavan, Wheaton, IL, for Appellee Motorhomes Unlimited.


Justice CAHILL delivered the opinion of the court:

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. §§ 2301-12 (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...

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