Attorneys for lawsuit defendant JMF Enterprises sent photos of the coins when they were packaged and a video of someone at JMF dumping them and their wrappers into a container, said Clifford Beem, whose law partner and daughter, Danielle Beem, represented the plaintiff. A Colorado welding company agreed in July to pay $23,500 to settle a lawsuit that a subcontractor had filed against it. And JMF Enterprises did pay — just not in the way Fired Up Fabrication thought it would.
“JMF’s manner of payment is also a symbolic ‘middle finger’ to the Plaintiff and its business, Plaintiff’s counsel, and, indeed, to our system of justice,” Beem wrote in her motion. After the work was done, Fired Up repeatedly asked JMF to pay it the agreed-upon amount, which was not specified in court documents, according to the suit. Although JMF made partial payment through November 2021, the company allegedly ignored invoices that Fired Up sent after that.In June 2022, Fired Up sued, alleging that JMF had breached their contract. The case worked its way through the justice system for more than a year, and then in late July, the two companies decided to settle.
On Aug. 28, a delivery driver contacted Beem, telling her that he was trying to deliver the settlement payment — a metal box that weighed more than 6,500 pounds, she wrote in her motion. The driver told Beem that he couldn’t get the container up to her office because it was too heavy for the freight elevator, the motion states.Beem called JMF’s lawyer, who confirmed that the company planned to pay with loose coins.