Legal Opinion
Lettieri v. American Savings Bank
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Decided August 5, 1980PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPeters, J.
This case concerns the scope of the apparent authority of the president of a de facto corporation to encumber corporate property. The appeal results from the consolidation in the trial court of two related law suits arising out of the execution of a mortgage on property owned by the John Lettieri Corporation (hereinafter the corporation) by Joseph Lettieri, the corporation’s president, to the American Savings Bank (hereinafter the bank). In the first law suit, Charles J. Lettieri, John Lettieri and other members of the Lettieri family sued to have the mortgage set aside; in the second suit,…
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