How Do You Prepare A Plaintiffs Case In Small Claims Court?
Thinking as a plaintiff in a legal action for damages, usually below $10,000, you have the opportunity to obtain justice, and much needed satisfaction, from a lawsuit waged in a municipal small claims court. Perhaps you have incurred a legal injury such as, for example, a landlord’s negligence that has caused you physical harm, a faulty new appliance that has caused a fire in your kitchen, or, maybe, a contract wherein a person, who owes you money, has refused to pay. If so, you have an inexpensive avenue to a redress of grievance under the jurisdiction of a small claims judge.With very few exceptions, most municipal jurisdictions in the country have small claims courts. These are relatively informal legal forums where a judge, and judge alone, hears a legal dispute and decides in matters of law, and fact, between the cases presented by plaintiff, the one who initiates the action, and the defendant. How to Prepare a Plaintiff’s Case in Small Claims Court Step 1 Go down to your local co