1. He can claim whatever he chooses to claim. Nobody here can promise that he'll testify honestly.

2. We have no way of assessing odds for you. We don't know what he's going to say.

3. You mean, try to place a lien against a partnership interest? To try to attach the assets of the restaurant? If the partnership owns real estate, to try to attach the real estate?

4. There's always a chance of losing a case.

You can ask the court to award prejudgment interest based upon this being a cash loan. Whether or not the court will do so, I can't promise.