Valley Bank & Trust Co. v. Sciartelli

This is an action of contract to recover the face amount of a consumer note made by the defendants and payable to Connecticut Home Products Corp., which in turn endorsed it to the plaintiff without recourse.

The answer is general denial, that the plaintiff is an assignee of a “contractor/seller” and thereby subject to defenses good against the latter, that the consideration for the note was illegal and “specifically barred as a tie-in sale” with the knowedge of the plaintiff, and “that the plaintiff is guilty of a violation of a fiduciary relationship between the parties”. The trial judge…