America's Wholesale Lender v. Silberstein

Opinion

DRANGINIS, J.

This appeal is similar to the appeal in America’s Wholesale Lender v. Pagano, 87 Conn. App. 474, 866 A.2d 698 (2005), which we released on the same date as this opinion. The dispositive issue is whether a corporation that brings an action solely in its trade name, without the corporation being named as a party, has standing so as to confer jurisdiction on the court. We conclude that because a trade name is not an entity with legal capacity to sue, the corporation has no standing to litigate the merits of the case. We therefore reverse the judgment of the trial court.

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