Incheon Civil Attorney Assistance | Incheon Civil Attorney, Representing the Defendant Company to Obtain Dismissal of the Claims for Freight Charges and Other Amounts

The following is the account of the client who requested assistance from an Incheon civil litigation attorney.

The plaintiffs in this case were creditors who carried out parcel delivery work through an application, and the client was a debtor who had entered into a transport contract with the plaintiffs and was required to pay freight charges.

Another defendant in this case, Company A, was unable to use the application because it had failed to pay some of its freight charges, and so it asked the client's company, with which it was on friendly terms, for help.

The client allowed the use of the client company's account for about five days, and in the process a contract worth approximately 100 million won was concluded.

Company A later canceled the tax invoice that had been issued in the name of the client's company and reissued it under Company A's name, but the plaintiffs refused to accept this.

In the end, the client paid part of the freight charges, but a claim was raised for the remaining balance, and at that point the client requested assistance from an Incheon civil litigation attorney.

Freight Charges

When operating a transport business or conducting ongoing transactions with a transport company, legal disputes concerning freight charges can arise.

In particular, there are many cases in which only an initial payment is made and the balance is not settled, or in which a contract is concluded verbally without any initial payment and payment is then refused on the ground that a problem has arisen with the cargo.

If the unpaid freight charges are small, the matter can be resolved relatively simply, but where the unpaid amount ranges from several million to hundreds of millions of won, it is advisable to resolve it through a civil lawsuit.

The client was not in a relationship of conducting a joint business with Company A.

The attorney emphasized that the client had simply lent the account for the application at issue temporarily at the request of Company A.

All of the client's prior contracts were subsequently canceled, leaving only the transport consignment contract with the plaintiffs in effect.

The attorney emphasized that the client did not bear any obligation toward the plaintiffs.

Company A asked the plaintiffs to cancel the tax invoice that had previously been issued in the client's name and to reissue it under Company A's name.

Accordingly, the client argued that it had never made any declaration of intent to assume an obligation toward the plaintiffs.

The client in the above case had been somewhat unfairly named in a lawsuit claiming freight charges and other amounts, but with the assistance of the Incheon civil litigation attorney, was able to obtain a dismissal of the claims.

As this case shows, when defending against a civil lawsuit, it is advisable to handle the matter with the help of an experienced attorney.

If you are facing difficulty defending against a civil lawsuit in a situation similar to the case above, please feel free to request assistance from an Incheon civil litigation attorney at Daeryun LLC.