Legal Question in Personal Injury in California

Re: Property damage- private parties

What an ass hole! Excuse my lingo here.

The SOL for property damage is 3 years; for verbal contract (she verbally promissed to pay for it) is 2 years; and for a written contract (she wrote you an email promissing to fix your car or remedy the damage she caused in an assumption for not getting sued) is 4 years.

Take her to the small claims court, the limit is $7500.00 and ask for punitive damages in addition to the damage estimate. Get a judgment and garnish her wages - you know where she works!

Nail her ass to the wall, she deserves it.

Re: Property damage- private parties

If you present receipts in small claims court, and the judge believes your testimony, then you will probably win. Therefore, the next venue your friend should be dancing should be in an adult bar trying to earn the money to pay for your car!

Good luck.

Re: Property damage- private parties

Statute of limitation for property damage is 3 years, for personal injury it's 2 years. But do it sooner, rather than later, and then you can choose when to enforce the judgment. The judgment is good for 10 years and may be renewed at that time.

Re: Property damage- private parties

You will likely win in small claims court, though you may lose a friend over a few hundred dollars. Ask her to make monthly payments affordable to her. If she refuses, then you may want to sue her, since she is not really much of a friend. As someone else has already told you, the statute of limitations on filing a lawsuit for property damage is 3 years .