POINTER94
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This week my brother was in court over a matter that arose with the sale of his previous home. In the initial hearing several weeks ago, the judge tried to strong arm him into settling with the woman who purchased his home for the full amount of her claim. He didn't. But the bully tactics of the judge and the codling of the woman who brought the case was quite angering. He litterly walked her threw the best way to make my brother pay. I thought he was the judge not her lawyer. And he was downright rude to my brother.<br /><br />Well Thursday the case was heard and my brother won a shallow victory. He won but the judge again walked the woman threw the best way for the case to go her way and told her she could always refile. Nice touch. <br /><br />The case is about the hot water boiler for the heating system that seemed to have failed. Those of you who know me know I am in the pump industry and I provided him with a backup unit for the circulating system. I also provided him with the booster system, washdown pump, pressure tank for booster system, and oil pump for doing oil changes in his boat. Why did I do this? I am his brother and we all live on a budget.<br /><br />Well he decided to leave the pump with the house as his new home has forced air. Several months after she took posession of the home the original pump failed according to her. And the backup I gave him "was defective" according to her repair person. Well I work in the industrial end of the pump business and I know there was nothing wrong with the replacement and if there was it was still under warranty. (I paid 56 bucks for the pump. Yea I got friends in the industry.) Well the repair guy sold her a new unit (replacement pump) and installed it and charged her 600 bucks for the service. It shouldn't have taken more than an hour to do this job. These are inline flanged pumps, and run on 115v. Two wire nuts, a grounding lug and four bolts on the piping. <br /><br />She is sueing my brother because he left her the backup pump, and that to her, is indicitive of the fact he knew there was a problem. This woman had a home inspection prior to signing on the dotted line, and signed off on it. She is basically calling us liars for sharing something we didn't have to.<br /><br />These pumps are mag-drive pumps so unless it was drawing high amps (which it wasn't at the time of sale) there was no way to know if the unit was going to fail. (yes, we could have megged it but I don't carry a Megameter to test pumps that are working fine. And I doubt that would have shown anything if the amps were in line.)<br /><br />Well he won, but the woman has refiled again. And with the free legal assistance from the bench and blatent bias expressed by the judge, more vacation and money to defend our integrity goes out the window. And since existing law, facts, and common sense are in short supply, who knows what will happen this time. Why do we have laws when judges can simply divine what is in peoples minds and hearts and assign monitary values to them. I highly doubt this clown knows the working end of a screwdriver from the handle, but is capable of understanding how pumps fail, and why someone might have a backup. This woman was litterly foaming at the mouth during the case. And she had a female friend who was a building inspector friend who clearly knows nothing about pumps. Nothing.<br /><br />Back into the soup. Anyone want to bet on the outcome. I don't, even though nothing my brother did was improper. 
