Chrysler First Financial Services Corp. v. Van Daam

OPINION

KELLEHER, Justice.

This dispute is before us on a petition for the issuance of a writ of certiorari by the plaintiff, Chrysler First Financial Services Corporation. The plaintiff seeks review of a District Court judge’s order that waived the costs involved in appealing a judgment in a tenant-eviction action from District Court to the Superior Court without providing for a hearing as requested by the plaintiff.

This controversy originated in 1988 when plaintiff brought a tenant-eviction action against Peter Van Daam (Van Daam). On December 7, 1988, a judge of the District Court entered…