Man successfully sues parents after they threw away his $25,000 'irreplaceable' porn collection

A Michigan judge has ruled in favor of a 42-year-old man who sued his parents for throwing away his $25,000 "irreplaceable" porn collection.

David Werking, who was living with his parents following a divorce, sued his parents for destroying the items, but his parents argued that they told him not to bring the pornography into their home, the BBC reports.

However, the judge ruled that, even as landlords, Werking's parents did not have the authority to destroy his porn collection.

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Werking lived with his parents for 10 months in the wake of his divorce in Grand Haven, Michigan before moving out in August 2017. He now resides in Indiana.

The Holland Sentinel newspaper reports that he left his extensive and "irreplaceable" collection of adult films and magazines at his parents' house when he began moving out and later discovered that they had been disposed of.

His parents said that they got rid of the items because they did not want them on their property, and they were unwilling to help their son move them to his new home in Indiana.

Werking subsequently filed a lawsuit in April 2019 claiming that the items were illegally disposed of.

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According to the Sentinel, emails between Werking and his father showed that the items destroyed included 12 full boxes of "pornography plus two boxes of sex toys" and over 1,600 DVDs and tapes.

Werking's father told him in one email that he did him a "big favor by getting rid of all this stuff".

As per the Metro, Werking's lawsuit explained: "Some of the property was pornographic in nature. None of the property was illegal in nature."

A federal judge agreed that the 42-year-old had not "abandoned his property" when he was in the process of moving out and therefore it should not have been destroyed.

An attorney for the parents said after the verdict that they have now hired an expert from the Erotic Heritage Museum in Nevada to help them determine the damages that they owe to their son.

The Werkings have been set a deadline of mid-February to present the exact cost of the damages to a court.