Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2022-09-14 07:11:00.633133+00
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    '-"-t'not propOOnded any discovery requests, and she also
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          hasn't sought my cTient's deposition.                 So we're

          convinced that, you know, this case has been ongoing for
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          almost two and-a-half years now, so we're convinced that

    12    at this point Plaintiff doesn't have any evidence to

          prove that my client.' s ~egligence l_r~ximately caused her

~         alleged injuries.Udvf             \l;e.~J~ ~ CIZ)
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    16    sp~cifiC, we Id saJ she doesn It'· have.' a·ny eviden~e to show

    17    that Mr. Gaines owed her a duty,                that he breached that

    18    duty 'and that his breach of that duty proximately caused
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                            She filed an amended petition where she

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                              Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
                    Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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 1   to dismiss all Plaintiff's claims with prejudice against

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                                                Ms. Thompson,   your
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 4   response?

 5                MS. THOMPSON:       ,Okay. •-My_ ~onse is all
     claims are valid.       I dict~fe~formation -- my

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 9   were sent to me were sent to me from another person.

10   Originally, it was not sent to me.             I didn't receive it.
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11   I burned my hands then.           So when I did send the

12   deposition, I    ~~ l'.i:C?i~ions,          ther~ w!e~_hink
13   about 15 pages', and ·they        ~ -7
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                                             Cuse me, t             were

14   all irielevant~to the case.  They asked me about my
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15   medical records, and they've asked me something about

16   things that were irrelevant.
17                      I answered what was relevant and what was
18   irrelevant.     I gave them the i~formation.          Number one,

19   number two, number three didn't apply to my punitive

20   damages.     This is my property damages.          My car was in

21 _ the accident.      He caused my accident, and we had a

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     witness that stated what he did on         .
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23   was witnesses, and he denied it antt"""Yney         dld~l   pay it.

24   He decided to deny he did this to me.             He did this to

25   me, and I didn't have a problem with him -- with them

                      Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
            Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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  1   paying for my medical, and                              s still ongoing.

  2                       And so the accident was my car -- the
      problem is the reason ~hey didn't _wantl9-ia~~_0
        . Stone is the person ;»a_:: I wen; tQ CJ1tft With.                  I
( 5   didn't know~as suppos~~,¼l\~ranc~ cornp:0
  6   so I had to go back~sue the person that wrecked my
~xi-car.~    ~ h&e/?J./a.      to takES   r(i3, ODO         or noth~    I had a

      classic c a r , ~ t i 9 f ' 0 J ' ~ d n ' t want to p~for tvnh'7?,
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      rental car,    nd so I kept my rental car and my wife's

10    van.   The $3,000 -- he offered me $3,000, and I said no,

11    my car's a classic.
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13    external ap~raisal.       I got my own ex~ernal appraisal

14    because he didn't h?ve the corre~t amount for my car.
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      He didn't go by a computer man or call someone and ask
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16    what would they give for a 1987 considering my car was
17    old, and it only had 99,000 miles on it.
 18   Ninety-nine-hundred-thousand miles on a 1987.                    It's a

 19   classic, and I had a lot of things done to -- added to

 20   the car_ to preserve i t l Ci        1\-1'.",:;: d.    ~-la ~L\~<-2-
 21   L.6-rrc.. d--       So then he said aka~ if you c~ange your
 22   mind about the $3,000, and he continued to harass me

 23   about it.     So I just decided to go ahead and file

 24   charges for.not reimbursing me for the rental I

 25   purchased.     I rented the car for four or five months,
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                       Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
             Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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            )and he o n l ~ e a portion of the rental and gave me
     2      a low budget of my car.                   That's not the correct amount

     3      and other stuff.        So I decided ok9y, thiS is something I

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\           questions that were irrelev~t-
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            and I gave those.
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                                     We got involved in the medical part
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     8      of my case of the questions.                            I didn't an~we-:..come of
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            Jthose because I didn't want to£o get medical records
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            all over again when I 1 didn 1 t need to do that, so there
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            was a few more questions                      r-   don't have that were
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    12      irrelevant.        He's upset with me bec~use my classic car,
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    13      I got my external outside appraisal.
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                      THE COURT: Okay. Thank you .                                      Ms. Crane,
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    15      anything you want to add?
    16                      MS. CRANE:           Yes, Your Honor.                   I    do want to
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    17       kind of clarify some things.                           I   believe what
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    18      Ms. Thompson's is referring to as depos~tion i~ that we

    19      sent her, you know, the standar-d Request for

    20      Disclosures, a n d s ~ respond to that, and then we

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    G       _sent her a              for Admissions.

            what she's referring to, but she is alleging -- I mean,
                                                                               So I think that Is

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    23      in her netition she is alleging medical --~a~ag~s.                                      She is

    24      _alleging
    25                      MS. THOMPSON:             No, no, no -- go ahead.                        I'm

                               Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
                     Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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 1   sorry.
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                  MS. CRANE:        She is alleging property damage,
     mental anguish and things like that, but we have no --
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     so -- and she does ment1on~1n hJ.: petition, and in this
     request, about an       esn~e''fc;}~\,he       property damages, but
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     there's been no documentation received that supports any
     of those damages, but that
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     documentation would       ~~~j'tcf!h~ da~:ges- cle~ent. It
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     doesn '__ t---go to any of tfi"}1fb1I1ty elements such as
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     as the duty and the breach of ' t ~ t duty. There's been
11   no evidence of any of that that we believe Plaintiff can
12   produce at this time.
13                THE COURT:        All right.      I don't see any
14   proposed orders.        So

15                MS. CRANE:        Those

16                THE COURT:        Go ahead.
17                MS. CRANE:        We just filed that this morning.

18   I noticed that there wasn't a proposed order, so we got

19   that filed this morning so it probably hasn't

20   circulated.
21                THE COURT:        It'll take two or three days.       So

22   if you can also e-mail it to the Court at

23   101Court@dallascounty.org.             In the subject matter line,

24   whoever's sending it has to put follow-up from hearing.

25                     Ms. Thompson, to save you any wear and

                        Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
              Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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            ( tvu-y I,' ('lfe.., c1',Gkn~dy the file.
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                                                                       ~•_Si_DI!ly about property
                      damage and mental anguish.                    I've already got that stuff
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                      done.    It's nothing about medical.                    But when you say all
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           22         the rnentai anguish when I'm~wrecked and injured, yes,

           23         it's going to have an ~tional impact on me, but i 's
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           24         really mostly about the rental.                     It's about my renal
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                      and the reimbursement for my rental and the damageS that

                                        Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
                              Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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                   1   he underbid at $ ~ , 5 0
                                              when it's valued at $7,600.                     I'm
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                                                      back.      I've already suffered that
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                   4                  So my questig:§L_is to pay fo~ the property
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                   5   damage that was damaged when he was already doing fine

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                   6   before he wrecked my car.                I didn't want the 3,000.

                       s aid $7,600 would be ':ore ~,000 or 9,000.                   Me~tal ·
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                       anguish, w h a t ~ ~ u l ~ i s poi~~'m sic~·~ ~een

                       sick for a -~ong~tirne.
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                                               I'm getting better, and I only
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                  10   have· the strength for what I needed.                  It's only about my

~-~                      property damag~ from the t;eginning. When we start to
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    14!Coh             - Se!).d that, I'm     to add in ever thin         e start
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                                       That'.s__exactl'l--\fila.L--I---did._.If__ has  a lot
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                  14    to do with your effiOtions and with how you feel. (rt has
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     ,"'1«-V            a lot to do with that, but it also has to do with my
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                  16   property that I no longer have anymore, and it~' s a

                  17    classic that I would like to have and I don't have it.

                  18    He caused it.           I didn't cause it.      He did.

                  19                    THE COURT:     All right.      Thank you very much.
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                  20    Y'all have a great day, great afternoon.                  Please stay

                  21   _safe and healthy, and I hope your hands continue to
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                  22    heal.

                  23                            (End of proceedings.)

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                                              Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
                                    Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court
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 1   STATE OF    TEXAS
 2   COUNTY OF DALLAS
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 4               I, Terri Etekochay, Official Court Reporter
 5   in and for the 101st District Court of Dallas County,
 6   State of Texas, do hereby certify that the above and
 7   foregoing contains a true and correct transcription of
 8   all portions of evidence and other proceedings requested
 9   orally by counsel for the parties to be included in this
10   volume of the Reporter's Record in the above-styled and
11   numbered cause, all of which occurred in open court and
12   were reported by me.           -=r::i   (Of~
13                I further certi~ that this Reporter's Record
14   of the proceedinas . truly and correctly reflects the
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15   exhibits, if any, offered by the respective ~ s .
16                I further certify that the total cost for this
17   Reporter's Record is $00.00 as Plaintiff was deemed
18   indigent.
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                         °Ef( a0:.,u_V'o}-e.,      R-e_pvrT
20               WITNESS MY HAND this 6th day of May, 2022.
21                                 ls/Terri Etekochay

22                  Terri Etekochay, Texas CSR #8283
                    Certificate Expires: 1-31-2023
23                  Email: terri.etekochay@dallascounty.org
                    Official Reporter, 101st District Court
24                  George Allen Sr. Courts Building
                    600 Commerce Street, 6th Floor
25                  Dallas, Texas 75202-4631

                    Terri Etekochay, CSR, RPR, CRR
          Official Court Reporter, 101st District Court