> From: discuss-boun...@lopsa.org [mailto:discuss-boun...@lopsa.org] On > Behalf Of Brandon S Allbery KF8NH > > If > he has any written records that can be used to prove his claim, he can > start > by billing them and potentially end in small claims court.
Small claims court is only useful if you both agree that there was an agreement, and the only dispute is interpretting the words of the agreement. Let's suppose I bought a car from a used car dealer (this is a true story) and had a signed purchase & sale agreement that I would pay $100 deposit on the car and return with $3000 check from the bank, and they would return my $100 deposit. And then they refused to give me the $100 deposit back. They said "we mailed it to you already" and "we won't ever refund that." And after a few months of back and forth, I brought it to court, and they refused to show up for the subpoena, so I won by default and got the court order for payment, and they simply chose to ignore it. (This was when I was young enough that $100 was a really big deal to me.) That's the end of the road. There's nothing left to do. If you can't get them to agree to it, even if you go to court, there's no way to enforce the decision, even when it's court ordered. The value is simply too small to put a lien on their assets or in any way force payment against their will. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lopsa.org http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
