I was afraid of that. There must be a problem with our system of law
if you cannot bring a legitimate case to court without having
sufficent resources to retain legal council. I can only imagine a lot
of people must get away with selling bad goods as they know that no
one can afford to take them to court to recover their losses. I must
live in a different world, but I thought that pilots would treat each
other with respect and not endanger a fellow pilot's life by selling
him or her a bad aircraft.
Thank you for your advice Jerry.
Jim
I got a royal screw job on my first annual - sky high prices and bad
work that had to be corrected. I had arranged a time payment and after
I paid for the corrections, I stopped paying. The annual guy took me
to Small Claims Court and I produced the bills for the re-repairs and
before & after photographs. The judge ruled for the annual guy LESS
the cost of my re-repairs, so I felt that I had won.
This is in RI & Mass. - in these parts I believe Small Claims can get
to $2500 (not certain, but well over a thousand, anyway), and you get
to be your own "lawyer" so there's not that dead loss (sorry, Jerry -
but you seem to agree that in cases like this, like in Jarndyce and
Jarndyce {Dickens' Bleak House where the lawyers ate up the whole value
of the will before Chancery Court} that the legal bill can exceed the
aircraft's repair costs).
J. Beach Brennan
