Legal Opinion
Ventres v. Goodspeed Airport, LLC
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided June 14, 2011No. SC 18260PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
McLACHLAN, J.
This appeal, which arises from the clear-cutting of trees on land abutting the Goodspeed Airport in the town of East Haddam, illustrates the importance of the doctrines of res judicata and collat eral estoppel in safeguarding the principles of the finality of judgments and judicial economy. Goodspeed Airport, LLC (airport), Timothy Mellon and Timothy Evans, doing business as Evans Contracting (collectively, airport parties), appeal 1 from the trial court’s summary judgments in favor of the inland wetlands and watercourses commission (commission) of the town of East Haddam…
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