Danbury Savings & Loan Ass'n v. Delaney

The commissioner of income maintenance has authority, under General Statutes § 17-82C,1 *745to record a lien on the real property of a recipient of state public assistance grants. The sole issue in this appeal is when such a lien becomes sufficiently choate to give it priority over a competing federal tax lien. This case began as an action by the plaintiff, Danbury Savings and Loan Association, Inc., to foreclose a mortgage lien on real property owned by the defendants Colin M. Delaney and Valerie E. Delaney. In this foreclosure action, numerous other lienholders, including the United States and…