Legal Opinion
Benvenuto v. Mahajan
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided July 21, 1998No. SC 15927PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BORDEN, J.
This case is before this court on our own order to show cause, if any, why the appeal should not be dismissed for lack of a final judgment. The question posed by the order is whether, in an action for strict foreclosure, the lack of a determination by the trial court of attorney’s fees deprives this court of subject matter jurisdiction over the appeal because the trial court decision appealed from was not a final judgment. We answer the question in the negative.
The facts are not in dispute. In 1995, the defendants, Ramesh Mahajan and Rupila Mahajan,1 executed a note in the…
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- Morici v. JarvieSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1950
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