Commonwealth Financial Systems Inc. v. Hill

SMYTHE, J,

This was an action to collect on credit card debt. The crux of the dispute was whether defendant, Robert C. Hill, had ever possessed and used the credit card or not. The court, after a trial without a jury, did not believe Hill’s testimony that he never had the credit card nor made the charges on it upon which plaintiff Commonwealth Financial Systems, the owner by assignment of the debt, was suing, and did not know of the card or the debt until he received the complaint in this case.

Upon this court’s decision after the trial that Hill owed Commonwealth $10,625.94 in satisfaction of…