Legal Question in Credit and Debt Law in California

debt collection

I am the owner of a rental company. The company owed $600 to a vendor that supports our commercial dishwasher unit. The vendor called and requested payment on the past due amount. When we advised the vendor that the company would not be able to provide payment in full for at least another two weeks, the vendor stopped by and picked up a small piece inside the dishwashing unit (which they claimed was their unit) and by doing so, disabled the dishwasher, rendering it as useless. Can the vendor legally do this?

(since then we have paid them in full and they have reassembled the piece back into the machine).

Thank you.

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Asked on 3/13/04, 3:34 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Sheldon G. Bardach Law Offices of Sheldon G. Bardach

Re: debt collection

If the part really did belong to him, he was within his rights. He played hard ball with you. Did his action work? Was he payed sooner that he would have been?

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Answered on 3/13/04, 9:12 pm


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