Cheshire Mortgage Service, Inc. v. Montes

We sit as a court of equity in reviewing this appeal from the granting of foreclosure of the defendants’ property. See Reynolds v. Ramos, 188 Conn. 316, 320, 449 A.2d 182 (1982). A long standing equitable principle requires that “[e]quity will not afford its aid to one who by his conduct or neglect has put the other party in a situation in which it would be inequitable to place him [or her].” Glotzer v. Keyes, 125 Conn. 227, 231-32, 5 A.2d 1 (1939). Simply put, “[e]quitable power must be exercised equitably.” Hamm v. Taylor, 180 Conn. 491, 497, 429 A.2d 946 (1980). Since I believe that the…