Court Opinion

ID: 9726879
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 13:11:08.800679+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:25:31.665827
License: Public Domain

PRESIDING JUSTICE KARNS, concurring: While I concur in the opinion of the court, I also agree with the reasoning of the trial court. As between DeNeal and Holt, third-party defendants, and Simmons, third-party plaintiff, the transaction involving the trusses was simply a sale of goods under the Uniform Commercial Code. It is not suggested that this sale involved tortious conduct in any manner, even though Simmons employed the word “fault” in his third-party complaint. Plaintiff’s claim against Simmons was premised purely on breach of contract. Third-party defendants were entitled to invoke the specific provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code governing the sale of goods. Section 2 — 725 provides that any action for breach of any contract for sale must be commenced within four years after the cause of action accrues. This section provides further that a breach occurs and the cause of action accrues when the goods are delivered regardless of the aggrieved party’s lack of knowledge of the breach. (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1979, ch. 26, par. 2 — 725.) If the trusses were defective, they were defective at the time of delivery to Simmons. The fact that the purchaser was sued and brought a third-party action against the seller could not extend the time within which the seller could be sued by the purchaser. This case suggests other problems involving the relationship of tort law and the law of sales which are discussed in the recent opinion of the Supreme Court in Moorman Manufacturing Co. v. National Tank Co. (1982), 91 Ill. 2d 69.