Suit dropped.Suit Dropped: The City of Hawthorne dropped all charges against S&W Towing, the company that served as its official tow yard for more than 20 years. S&W was shut down after its top management pleaded guilty to a series of felony felony (fĕl`ənē), any grave crime, in contrast to a misdemeanor, that is so declared in statute or was so considered in common law. charges for selling impounded cars, sending false collection notices, and encouraging employees to falsify falsify, v to forge; to give a false appearance to anything, as to falsify a record. state sales reports. The lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. claimed that S&W Towing underpaid un·der·paid v. Past tense and past participle of underpay. underpaid Adjective not paid as much as the job deserves underpaid adj → fees to the city on cars impounded in the lot amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars in losses. The case was dropped because S&W was a family-run business with most of its assets owned by a family trust and leased back to the company; little money exists for the city to collect. In response, S&W Towing dropped its $5 million suit against Hawthorne that charged the city with breaching its contract and removing cars from the impound impound v. 1) to collect funds, in addition to installment payments, from a person who owes a debt secured by property, and place them in a special account to pay property taxes and insurance when due. lot. John Germain, former manager of S&W Towing, will be sentenced later this month. He is facing three years in a work center administered by the state prison. |
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