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David C Gardner's Legal Cases (2)

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Real estate

Damaged condominium

Sep 06, 2011

OUTCOME: Judgment for cost of repairing water damage against unit above.

My client operated a medical clinic beneath a dental office. My client experienced over 5 leaks into her offices, and was forced to shut down for hours at a time while the water damage was repaired. ... The dentist claimed he was not negligent, and therefore not liable for the damage. We showed that the condo. documents required that an upstairs tenant was responsible for water damage to a lower unit, and argued that he was liable under a negligence theory because he did not repair his property promptly after my client reported the damage to him. We obtained a judgment for $25,000, which was the cost of the repairs.

Family

Monetary Award

Apr 20, 2011

OUTCOME: House transferred to spouse for no money.

I represented a spouse whose husband moved to Nigeria, and left her in a home in his sole name, on which she was paying the mortgage. Unfortunately, a divorce court in Md. cannot transfer title, so we ... obtained a judgment against him for a monetary award totalling 80% of the equity in the home and sold the home to collect the judgment. Since she was the buyer at the auction, she purchased his interest for the amount of her judgment and we could then transfer it to her sole name.