an interesting case.
You can sit down, please.
Mr. Clark, you own a condo that
you rent out in Florida.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: And Mr. Lewis
rented that condo for how many
days and when?
>> Six days from July 2 through
the 8th, I believe it was.
>> Judge Judy: And who was
going?
>> Myself; my mother, Joyce; and
my daughter, Kylie.
>> Judge Judy: How many bedrooms
does the condo have?
>> Two bedrooms.
>> Judge Judy: Had you seen it
online?
>> I'd seen several of them
online.
I stay there every year.
I had not seen this one online.
>> Judge Judy: This is the
story.
Mr. Lewis's mother was sharing
one of the bedrooms with his
daughter.
And sometime during the night,
she wanted to increase the fan.
Either she didn't see or
there was not a mechanism on the
wall to increase the speed
of the fan.
Is her last name Lewis?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: So Mrs. Lewis
stood up on the bed in order to
reach the fan and pull the cord
to see if that would work.
And she fell, and she broke a
wall of mirrors in the bedroom.
You want her to pay for the
wall -- not her, but Mr. Lewis,
who is the responsible party
because he rented the condo --
for the damage that his mother
did during that fall.
It's an easy case.
Mr. Lewis says it's your fault.
He's counterclaiming for $3,000
for pain and suffering because
his mother fell trying to turn
on the fan.
That's actually ridiculous.
>> Okay.
>> Judge Judy: Even your mother
knows it's ridiculous,
if she was thinking.
I would never
stand on a bed to turn on a fan.
You're an intelligent woman,
right?
And if you do and if you fall,
then it's your fault.
You can't blame somebody else.
You have a different theory?
>> I do.
She had no other option except
to get on the bed to turn on the
fan, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Yeah, she does.
She comes in to you and say,
"You know what?"
What's your first name?
>> Michael.
>> "Michael, I want to turn
the fan on."
Was there air conditioning
in the bedroom?
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: "Even though
there's air conditioning, I like
the fan going around.
I like the air circulated.
Michael, but I like the fan."
And how old is your mom?
>> She's 83.
>> Judge Judy: And you're
a lot younger.
"So would you see if you could
turn the fan on?"
I'm younger than your mom,
and I wouldn't stand on a bed.
Because you say she stood on the
bed, and the mattress was so old
it was sagging, and that caused
her to lose her balance.
That's her fault.
And if it's her fault and if
property was broken as a result
of that, then it's your
responsibility to fix it.
Common sense.es of the wall, pl,
and then...
>> Yes, ma'am.
This is before.
This is the mirror.
And then this is the after.
>> Judge Judy: Just for my own
information, not that it's
particularly relevant, but I
would just like to know, is
there a switch to turn this fan
on, on a wall?
>> No, ma'am, it's just
on the fan.
>> Judge Judy: Okay.
I would get rid of that.
It doesn't look smart.
I mean, you can put a ladder up
there to put it on if you like.
>> Actually, if Michael had went
in and adjusted it, he could
have reached it
with his height.
I can reach it.
It's just, I guess, she was so
small and all that.
It was hard for her to --
>> Judge Judy: So you
can reach it?
>> Oh, yes, ma'am.
>> Judge Judy: By the way,
Mr. Lewis --
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: I'm sure that at
some point, you then went in to
see if you could, in fact,
pull the string.
>> I never did go in to see if I
could actually reach that.
No, I did not, Your Honor.
>> Judge Judy: Why?
>> It's the last thing
on my mind.
I went in.
My mother was laying
on the ground.
I just wanted to get her up
off the ground.
>> Judge Judy: She was okay.
She wasn't hospitalized.
>> She did not go to the
hospital.
>> Judge Judy: So she was lucky,
very lucky.
>> Yes.
>> Judge Judy: Because as a
very famous gerontologist once
said, "If you want to live to be
a nice, ripe old age, I only
have two words for you --
don't fall."
[ Laughter ]
How much is the mirror to fix?
>> $540.
>> Judge Judy: Judgment for the
plaintiff in the amount of $540.
We're finished. Thank you.
>> Byrd: Parties are excus