Bozelko v. Statewide Construction, Inc.

Citations

• 202 Conn. App. 577

Syllabus

The plaintiff in error, C, challenged the judgment of the trial court rendered in favor of the defendants in the underlying action. C is the daughter of R, the plaintiff in the underlying action who sought to quiet title to certain real property in East Haven. Following a trial in the underlying action, the court concluded that the defendants were the owners of the property. R appealed to this court, which affirmed the judgment of the trial court, and our Supreme Court denied R certification to appeal from that judgment. Subsequently, C, who was not a party to the underlying action, filed the present writ of error in our Supreme Court, which transferred the matter to this court. C challenged the trial court's factual findings underlying its determination that the defendants were the own- ers of the subject property. Held that C lacked standing to challenge the trial court's judgment and, accordingly, the writ of error was dismissed: C relied solely on her claimed status as a holder of a mortgage alleged to include the subject property to establish aggrievement, but C's reli- ance on the mortgage was not sufficient to establish aggrievement, as C offered no proof as to how, or to what extent, her claimed interest as a mortgage holder had been impaired by the trial court's judgment, and, accordingly, C did not establish aggrievement and, therefore, lacked standing to challenge the judgment. Argued November 18, 2020—officially released February 9, 2021