My question involves a traffic citation from the state of: California
I recieved a parking ticket for the amount of $5 which I sent in a check for and the check was cashed before the due date of the ticket.
I have since found out that I am in collections for the ticket. It appears that the printer used to print the ticket was malfunctioning an failed to print the right edge of the ticket. Hence my "pay amount" looks like $5, when it should have been $50, and my "amount due after due date" looks like $1, when it should have been $100.
I do have a copy of the original ticket with the misprint, but since I never recieved any correspondence (think they had an old address) and the check was cashed I assumed the matter was taken care of.
I feel like I'm not in the wrong here, I payed the amount that was printed on the ticket, but since it's already in collections I have no idea how to begin to contest this!

