I've Been Wrongfully Sued. How Do I Fix This?
In 1998 I acquired a Sears card. I had the card about a year and fell behind on the payments. After some time went by, I let the card be cancelled and the debt went into collection around 1999 or 2000. Around that time I was living in Lorain County. By the end of 2001, I had moved one more time to West Cleveland, then joined the Navy. I was in the navy Until 2007. I had not received any notification from the creditor nor the collection agency. I had reviewed by credit report in 2008 and seen that the Sears card was no longer on my report and left it at that. January of 2009, A lawsuit was brought up on me in the Elyria Circuit Court by the law firm Javitch Block and Rathbone. I was being sued for the amount os $2539.91. Accourding to the court docket, the law firm sent a registered letter to my "last known address". First off, the last known address they sent it to was an address I had not lived at for almost 10 years. Secondly, the address that the certified letter was sent to does NOT exist. The next corrispondence was sent in February of 2009 as alias ordinary mail to the aformetioned incorrect address. Once again, I did not receive the notice for two reasons, I did not live there and the address doesn't exist. In March the law firm filed notice of service. The next month the law firm filed a motion for default. Still no notification from anyone. Please note, all the while this was taking place I lived in Cleveland and worked at Babies R Us. So after April of 2009, a motion for default judgement was set. In June of 2009, the magistrate awarded Javitch Block and Rathbone a default judgement in the amount of $2539.19 plus court costs and a 5%intrest per annum. Also, An motion to garnesh my wages was set in place and I was not notified of this either. The court docket states the certified mail was sent to Toys R US in NJ, signed for and returned. I never received any of this information. My wages where garnished twice while I worked for Toys R Us and I left the company in August of 2010. I have not received any more correspondence from Javitch Block and Rathbone, but the legal note just showed up on my credit report a couple of days ago. So after all this, my question is was I sued wrongfully and if so How do I get this letter removed and have the court over rule the jugdement against me?