14.5 - Small Claims Project (in class)

Please download the Small Claims Complaint (SC-100) from either the California Courts website(Links to an external site.) or the Los Angeles Superior Court website. Go over the parties and the facts which form the basis of the original dispute, the court in which you will file, and the remedy the plaintiff claims. If there are any additional facts needed (i.e. addresses of the parties), you can add to them.

Link to add in the info:

https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/sc100.pdf

Please send images of what you added to this.

Thank You!

Facts:

Steven McPheters, a local housebuilder and developer, hired Terry Tentinger, a local painting contractor, to do some touching-up and re-painting on one of McPheter's new houses. Tentinger worked two days, billed McPheters $420 (for a three-man crew for fourteen hours at $30 per hour), and offered to return to the house to remedy any defects in his workmanship at no cost.McPheters objected to the number of hours on the bill - although he did not express dissatisfaction with the work - and offered Tentinger $250. Tentinger refused to accept this sum, wrote McPheters a letter demanding payment, and later, filed a suit in court to collect the full amount. After Tentinger filed his action, McPheters filed a cross-complaint, alleging that Tentinger had failed to perform the job in a workman-like manner because there was paint overspray on a redwood deck and inadequate paint coverage on portions of the rain gutter. McPheters sought $3,000 in damages to cover the costs of repair that he claimed were necessary.