Legal Opinion
Perez v. Torres
California Court of Appeal
Decided May 24, 2012No. F061214PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
*421Opinion
CORNELL, J.
Marta L. Perez was injured when the vehicle in which she was riding was struck by a vehicle driven by Gustavo Davalos Torres. The jury returned a verdict in Perez’s favor. Thereafter, Torres filed a memorandum of costs claiming that he had made a valid offer pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 998 (hereafter section 998)1 for more than Perez recovered at trial. The trial court found the section 998 offer was invalid because it failed to include a statutorily required acceptance provision and granted Perez’s motion to tax all of the costs sought by Torres. Torres…
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