Pekera v. Purpora

Today the majority determines that the failure of the plaintiffs, Daniel R. Pekera, the administrator of the estate of Charlene Walker (decedent), and Earl Walker, the decedent’s husband, to “satisfy the applicable rules of practice because they did not file and serve upon the defendant [Allan Rodrigues]1 a written request for leave to amend their complaint with the amendment appended thereto”; see Practice Book § 10-60 (a);2 meant that “the trial court was not called upon to exercise its discretion . . . and [that] it correctly declined, as a matter of law, to consider the purported…