Mechanic Refuses to Pay Judgment After Customer Sues Him

[dennishoddy]

Friend got hit in his 240Z by an uninsured lady and wiped his car out.
He took her to court and /won a judgment against her.

But that judgment does not make her pay.
You must go back to court and get a wage garnishment against her or get money some other way.

The initial judgement back then in the 90's meant absolutely nothing.

The system may work the same way today and if the person is on government assistance you can't get any money from them.

Best you can do it report them to credit agency.
Messed up system.

That’s exactly what happened to us. Our Torino was totaled by an uninsured female motorist. We only had liability insurance.
We filed in small claims, got a judgement in our favor. Every time she got a new job, we filed for a wage garnishment. As soon as she heard her wages would be garnished, she would quit the job and go back on public assistance.
We made her life miserable for three years, but never collected a dime.

 

[swampratt]

^^^^^^ and that's the way the system works.
Sometimes I think get a big stinking vehicle with structural pipe bumpers and NO insurance and F them all... nothing they can do if I had sold everything and had nothing they could trace.

I would be blending in with all the illegal people running around.

 

[retrieverman]

We just need to forget the court system and go back to whooping @sses, and I bet that would solve quite a bit of this kind of chit.

You can’t get blood out of a turnip, but by golly, if you bust someone in the damn nose, you will.

 

[Firpo]

Worked with a guy that was into the roach coach for a couple hundred and was doing everything he could to avoid the food truck owner (a few months). One Friday as he rounded the corner to drive home he found a mattock buried in the hood of his Camaro. Oops!

 

[edl]

We just need to forget the court system and go back to whooping @sses, and I bet that would solve quite a bit of this kind of chit.

You can’t get blood out of a turnip, but by golly, if you bust someone in the damn nose, you will.

Until….you get whooped!

 

[THAT Gurl]

Worked with a guy that was into the roach coach for a couple hundred and was doing everything he could to avoid the food truck owner (a few months). One Friday as he rounded the corner to drive home he found a mattock buried in the hood of his Camaro. Oops!

Ahhhh ... I love a happy ending ....

 

[retrieverman]

Until….you get whooped!

 

[J-pitch]

^^^^^^ and that's the way the system works.
Sometimes I think get a big stinking vehicle with structural pipe bumpers and NO insurance and F them all... nothing they can do if I had sold everything and had nothing they could trace.

I would be blending in with all the illegal people running around.

Can’t get blood from a turnip

 

[Camo]

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