Legal Opinion
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. v. Melahn
Connecticut Appellate Court
Decided February 4, 2014No. AC34726PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
BEAR, J.
The defendant Michael John Melahn 1 appeals 2 from the trial court’s judgment denying his motion to open the strict foreclosure action that was instituted against him by the plaintiff, Wells Fargo Bank, N.A., as trustee. 3 We conclude that the court had the jurisdiction and authority to open, and that it should have opened, the judgment of strict foreclosure after the running of the law day in order to effectuate the clear terms of its judgment, with which the plaintiff encumbrancer had failed to comply and then falsely certified that it had complied. Accordingly, given the…
2Cases cited20 opinions
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