Mr. Sutton says that he paid you
$150 to have the fence fixed.
>> Yes, Your Honor.
We saw the truck
go into the gate two times,
but he ran into the gate
before this incident.
This is about the fourth time
that he ran into the gate.
>> Judge Judy: This is the only
time that I'm interested in,
July 10th.
>> Okay. Okay.
>> Judge Judy: This is the only
time that you have proof of.
>> He hasn't paid me
for that yet.
>> Judge Judy: He has not?
>> No.
The $150 he paid was
for a previous incident
of which I have a report.
>> Judge Judy: I'd like to see
it.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: No.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: No.
I'm going to read to you what
this says.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: It says,
"At 10:50 a.m. on the 2nd of
April 2015, the officer received
a call of property damage at
Norwell Street," which is, I
assume, where you live.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: "On arrival,
the police officer
spoke to the victim,"
that would be you...
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: ..."who stated
that today he discovered someone
had damaged his chain-link fence
in the driveway," someone.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: "Police officer
witnessed the two swing gates
of the chain-link
fence folded in,
and the victim stated
that none of his neighbors
saw or heard anything, and no
information was left behind
by the persons responsible."
That's what it says.
>> Yes.
But before this particular
incident, I caught him on video
of that incident.
It's not here.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Moiten...
>> Yes, ma'am?
>> Judge Judy: ...I want to know
on what date after July of 2016
that the defendant paid
you $150.
>> He didn't pay me $150 --
>> Judge Judy: He paid the
contractor.
>> Right.
>> Judge Judy: In what year?
>> 2015 for the previous
one that we haven't seen.
>> Judge Judy: Well, show me
that one.
>> I haven't got a report on it.
I made a report of that one,
and the detective order him
to pay for it.
He paid.
Then, after he paid,
he came back on July 6th
and July 10th
and did that damage.
So the incident
he paid for was before this.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Sutton,
all you have to do
to make it very,
very simple for me...
He says you did not pay him
the $150 for this damage.
That was for previous damage.
All I need from you
is a check to the fence company.
>> I don't have that.
>> Judge Judy: That's
what you were doing here, sir.
That's what you had to have.
And since the two of you
have been in litigation forever
and don't like
each other forever and you
knew you were coming here,
it seems only logical to me
that the one piece of evidence
that you would come with,
not all those other papers,
is proof
that you paid for the damage.
Now, if you say that you paid
for it because we've certainly
had months pass and he says
that he hasn't been paid
and you say he has been paid,
all you have to do is show me.
And if that you don't have
and all I see is this video,
I'm going to take his estimate
of what it cost to fix the gate.
>> But he said
if I understood...
Maybe I didn't hear him right.
I thought he said I paid
the contractor $150
to fix his gate.
>> Judge Judy: For a previous
incident.
Shh, shh.
Don't speak to each other.
For a previous incident.
>> Oh, for a previous one,
that's what you said.
The previous one.
Yes, yes.
>> Judge Judy: Yes, yes. Okay.
So can I have the estimate to
fix the fence?
>> Your Honor?
>> Judge Judy: No, no. Not yet.
>> Oh, okay.
>> Judge Judy: You have to give
me the evidence that I need,
Mr. Sutton, not the evidence
that you have.
What is this?
>> That's the estimate
from the contractor.
>> Judge Judy: And can I ask you
this question?
Why is this dated February 2nd,
2017, Mr. Moiten,
when this incident
happened July 10th?
>> Maybe it's just
a clerical error.
>> Judge Judy: Mr. Moiten,
it's not a clerical error.
>> Well, the contractor did it,
so I just ask him for estimate.
>> Judge Judy: This is dated
February, not July, not August,
September, October,
November, December or January.
>> I just ask him for an
estimate, ma'am.
He might have put
the wrong date on it.
>> Judge Judy: I don't know.
I don't know anything.
>> He probably didn't think
of it as important as it was
going to be today.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
All right, Mr. Sutton, clearly,
you don't have proof
that you paid for this damage.
>> Yes. I don't.
>> Judge Judy: It's very hard
for me to estimate
because I think
that Mr. Moiten is being
less than forthcoming with me.
But, clearly, there
was damage done to the gate.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And that damage
is more than $150.
So the damage that you paid
for maybe in 2015
and 2016 had nothing to do
with this damage.
This damage is more than $150.
I don't know if it's $850.
I can't rely on this thing
because I think it's baloney.
>> He just made
a clerical error.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
That's no clerical error.
It's baloney is what it is.