Lincoln Car Wash must pay William Mammarella nearly $1,000 for damages it caused to his 1999 Cadillac Seville.
When an attendant at Lincoln Car Wash drove Mammarella’s car into another patron’s car, Mammarella asked owner Amyn Jivani to reimburse him for repairs.
Mammarella said Jivani refused, though Jivani did arrange for repairs to the other patron’s car — a friend of Jivani’s, according to Mammarella.
So Mammarella filed a lawsuit against the car washer in small claims court. Santa Monica Superior Judge Pro Tem Jane Dubovy ruled against Jivani, who was not present, for the $800 repair bill as well as the $121 cost of hiring a car, plus court costs.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 7, 2002. Read the original PDF.