Savings Bank of New London v. Santaniello

The principal question involved in this appeal is whether a defendant who files a cross-complaint in a foreclosure action has an absolute right to a jury trial under the circumstances here disclosed.

The pleadings and judgment in the case cover thirty-five-pages of the printed record but-are not as complicated as this statement would indicate. The substi tuted complaint claimed foreclosure of two mortgages, the notes which these mortgages secured being signed by the named defendant, hereafter referred to as the defendant. In her answer the defendant denied the debt and filed a cross-complaint…