Court Opinion

ID: 9541153
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 16:23:06.401173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:00:08.235098
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SUPPLEMENTAL OPINION ON DENIAL OF REHEARING JUSTICE REINHARD delivered the opinion of the court:  Upon our denial of defendants’ petition for rehearing, we find it necessary to answer, briefly, one of the arguments raised therein. It is contended that this court did not address in its opinion whether certain building and fire code violations were uncorrected prior to closing. These violations allegedly would have given rise to defendants’ contractual right to terminate the contract. While this issue was raised below and determined by the trial court adversely to the defendants, the point was not raised or argued in defendants’ initial brief and is waived. (See 87 Ill. 2d R. 341(e)(7).) Although there was reference to this argument in defendants’ reply brief, this is in direct contradiction of Supreme Court Rule 341(e)(7) and (g) (87 Ill. 2d R. 341(e)(7), (g)). (See also Coons v. Wilder (1981), 93 Ill. App. 3d 127, 132, 416 N.E.2d 785; Department of Transportation v. Drobnick (1977), 54 Ill. App. 3d 987, 993, 370 N.E.2d 242.) Accordingly, we adhere to our original opinion. SEIDENFELD, P. J., and UNVERZAGT, J., concur.