What would you do if you took a pair of trousers to the dry cleaners and they lost them? If you're in America you might sue for sixty-seven million dollars. This report from Vanessa Heaney.
Listen to the story
This is a story about the world's most expensive
trousers. Five years ago a man took a pair into his
dry cleaners in
DC to get them altered for ten dollars. But the cleaners
them. And now that man, Roy Pearson, who
to be a
, is suing.
The South Korean
, Ki and Jin Man Chung, offered him a
dollars to settle, later
that to twelve-thousand dollars. But Mr Pearson wasn't
. He claims he is owed sixty-seven million dollars. The Chungs'
, Chris Manning, says his clients can't
they're in this situation.
Much of this case rests on two
which were on the dry cleaners'
which said "satisfaction guaranteed" and "same day
." Mr Pearson says he didn't get
r, so the signs amount to
.
But why sixty-seven-million dollars? He's claiming this is the
of fines compounded daily,
damage, legal
and car hire to get to another cleaners since the case began. This
might seem hard to believe and some
have described it as absurd, saying the case should be thrown out of court and Mr Pearson
from office. But for the Chungs it is very real. After years of
battles, they are
to court in
for what may be the
of the story of the world's most expensive pair of trousers.