The court obliged him to return it to its owner

Garage owner holds customer's vehicle for 15 months

The court obliged the owner of the garage to pay fees and expenses.

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Al Ain Court of First Instance ordered the owner of a car repair garage to hand over to a man his vehicle, which he had held for 15 months, until the payment of 17,700 dirhams.

In the details, a car owner filed a lawsuit against two car repair garages, demanding that they return and hand over his vehicle, valued at 38,000 dirhams, with fees and expenses, noting that he handed over the second defendant the vehicle for repair, and the vehicle remained parked inside the garage for three months, and he did not He repaired it, which forced him to hand over the vehicle to the first defendant for repair, and it remained with him for a year. Then he was surprised by a call from the owner of the center telling him that the vehicle had been in an accident, and when he came to receive it, he told him that the second defendant had taken the vehicle.

During the consideration of the case, the first defendant submitted a memorandum, in which he held that he did not know the plaintiff, and did not receive or repair any car belonging to him, and pleaded that the suit was not accepted, to file it in an irrelevant manner, while the owner of the second defendant institution attended, and submitted a note, which he brought The plaintiff brought two broken cars to be repaired, and one of them was repaired at an amount of 17,700 dirhams.

He added that the plaintiff did not pay the amount, and left the car for more than a year, as a result of which the second defendant was fined 5,000 dirhams from the Parking Department, and in order to preserve the car from theft, he transferred it to his estate, and that he had no objection to handing over the car after the owner paid the amount of 22,700 dirhams.

In the ruling, the court stated that what is established from the papers is that the plaintiff handed over two cars to the second defendant for repair, and indeed he repaired a car and handed it over to the plaintiff, and kept the second as a guarantee until the value of the repair of the first car was paid. This does not affect the second defendant’s insistence on having the vehicle as a guarantee for him, and that the plaintiff has sums due in exchange for repairing a car, as the second defendant had to submit it in the form of a counterclaim with the payment of his judicial fees, and not only submit it as an aspect regular defense.

The court ruled to reject the case against the first defendant, and obligated the second defendant to hand over the vehicle to the plaintiff, and obligated him to pay fees and expenses.

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