HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW HAVEN v. Goodwin

Opinion

BISHOP, J.

The dispositive issue in this housing appeal is whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the defendant Thelma Goodwin 1 an evidentiary hearing on her motion to open a stipulated judgment that she had entered into one month earlier with the plaintiff, the housing authority of the city of New Haven. Because we resolve that issue in the affirmative, we reverse the judgment of the trial court.

The following factual and procedural history is relevant to the defendant’s appeal. The defendant resides in a federal low income housing unit in New Haven, owned and…