Hartford National Bank & Trust Co. v. DiFazio

This appeal arises out of the second trial on the defendants’ counterclaim against the plaintiff bank.1 The defendants claim as error the trial judge’s failure to recuse himself and a variety of subsequent evidentiary issues arising out of the retrial. We find no error.

The defendants, Paul T. DiFazio and his mother, Edith A. DiFazio, were the owners of a five building apartment complex located in the city of Hartford known as Broadview Gardens. The plaintiff bank financed construction by a mortgage loan on the com*578plex. In 1973, as a result of increasing losses from the project, the DiFazios…