What is the name of your state? Texas
So a little bit of background. About 3.5 years ago, I bought a plane ticket for myself and a friend. I paid for her because she didn't have a credit card at the time (she paid me later with cash). However, in buying the tickets, for some reason, the travel agent made it for the wrong dates (had us returning 2 days earlier), which was a different date from the receipt that I paid for. I tried to get the dates changed, but the travel agent refused without a $500.00 fee per person. (tickets cost ~$1K). I talked it over with my friend and my credit card company, and the decision was made to buy a new set of tickets and return these. To cut a long story short, I bought the new tickets, returned the old tickets to the travel agent, who once she saw what I was trying to do then decided to change the dates on the tickets, but by then I had bought new, non refundable tickets from another company. So I disputed the claim with my credit card company. After a year passes, my credit card says they cannot recover the money so I need to go after the travel agent myself. I try to go after the agent, with a lawyer and everything, and finally, after 2 more years, in December 2007, they tell me they have no intention of paying. As you can guess, I could not file suit with the company because the statute of limitations for the transaction had past.
To complicate matters, for some reason, my friend has stopped talking to me (for unrelated reasons). Anyway, now I decide to cut my losses, and contact my former friend to ask that they pay me back their part of the tickets, but they have not returned my calls, emails or letters in the past 2 months. My question is this. Being that the tickets were bought about 3.5 years ago, can I still file suit against my friend since I only found out that I wasn't getting settled from the travel agent 2 months ago? How does that affect the statute of limitations? Does it?
So a little bit of background. About 3.5 years ago, I bought a plane ticket for myself and a friend. I paid for her because she didn't have a credit card at the time (she paid me later with cash). However, in buying the tickets, for some reason, the travel agent made it for the wrong dates (had us returning 2 days earlier), which was a different date from the receipt that I paid for. I tried to get the dates changed, but the travel agent refused without a $500.00 fee per person. (tickets cost ~$1K). I talked it over with my friend and my credit card company, and the decision was made to buy a new set of tickets and return these. To cut a long story short, I bought the new tickets, returned the old tickets to the travel agent, who once she saw what I was trying to do then decided to change the dates on the tickets, but by then I had bought new, non refundable tickets from another company. So I disputed the claim with my credit card company. After a year passes, my credit card says they cannot recover the money so I need to go after the travel agent myself. I try to go after the agent, with a lawyer and everything, and finally, after 2 more years, in December 2007, they tell me they have no intention of paying. As you can guess, I could not file suit with the company because the statute of limitations for the transaction had past.
To complicate matters, for some reason, my friend has stopped talking to me (for unrelated reasons). Anyway, now I decide to cut my losses, and contact my former friend to ask that they pay me back their part of the tickets, but they have not returned my calls, emails or letters in the past 2 months. My question is this. Being that the tickets were bought about 3.5 years ago, can I still file suit against my friend since I only found out that I wasn't getting settled from the travel agent 2 months ago? How does that affect the statute of limitations? Does it?