“But “it” doesn’t care, just so long as the lawyers are getting paid.”
Agree with you. In business I was involved in quite a bit of litigation. I learned much of the legal maneuvering was about putting financial pressure on the other party to achieve the required result. Justice, truth, and fairness were not a consideration.
“Agree with you. In business I was involved in quite a bit of litigation. I learned much of the legal maneuvering was about putting financial pressure on the other party to achieve the required result. Justice, truth, and fairness were not a consideration.”
Exactly, in our case the plaintiff ( an adjoining property owner with a beef with the party who sold him his home, and who also owned the property we purchased) filed the lien against us claiming he would prevent us from connecting to a sewer line that ran alongside his private road ( most of which we actually owned, but for which he had an easement) that had been put in to serve our home and a couple of others. He even threatened the sewer contractor so he didn’t get a sewer connection for his own home, ultimately forcing him to pay for his connection, which he tried to make on our property. After he settled with the person who sold him his home, he proceeded to sue us to try and prevent our making our sewer connection. We made the connection by not trespassing on his property so he sued us for nine causes of action, including one in which he claimed that I had assaulted him. He showed up with a new lawyer, and ours pointed out that the guy had three or four prior attorneys none of whom had been paid. The whole thing folded and we ended up placing a lien on his home for our legal costs, which ended up forcing him to sell to satisfy ours, as well as a number of other people’s legal cost because he was suing everyone for anything.
“Agree with you. In business I was involved in quite a bit of litigation. I learned much of the legal maneuvering was about putting financial pressure on the other party to achieve the required result. Justice, truth, and fairness were not a consideration.”
Exactly, in our case the plaintiff ( an adjoining property owner with a beef with the party who sold him his home, and who also owned the property we purchased) filed the lien against us claiming he would prevent us from connecting to a sewer line that ran alongside his private road ( most of which we actually owned, but for which he had an easement) that had been put in to serve our home and a couple of others. He even threatened the sewer contractor so he didn’t get a sewer connection for his own home, ultimately forcing him to pay for his connection, which he tried to make on our property. After he settled with the person who sold him his home, he proceeded to sue us to try and prevent our making our sewer connection. We made the connection by not trespassing on his property so he sued us for nine causes of action, including one in which he claimed that I had assaulted him. He showed up with a new lawyer, and ours pointed out that the guy had three or four prior attorneys none of whom had been paid. The whole thing folded and we ended up placing a lien on his home for our legal costs, which ended up forcing him to sell to satisfy ours, as well as a number of other people’s legal cost because he was suing everyone for anything.