Paquette v. Thompson

Syllabus

The defendants appealed from the trial court's judgment awarding the proceeds from the sale of certain real property to the plaintiff in the plain- tiff's interpleader action. They claimed, inter alia, that the court erred in determining that the plaintiff was the sole member of the defendant W Co., a limited liability company, after the defendant T transferred all of his membership interest in W Co. to the plaintiff in 2009. Held: The trial court properly determined that the plaintiff was the sole member of W Co., as this case was governed by the provisions of the Connecticut Limited Liability Company Act ((Rev. to 2009) § 34-100 et seq.) and not the Connecticut Uniform Limited Liability Company Act (§ 34-243 et seq.), which became effective July 1, 2017, well after T had transferred all of his membership interest to the plaintiff. The trial court's finding that the plaintiff, and not W Co., was entitled to the disputed funds was not clearly erroneous, as the plaintiff was the sole member of W Co. at the time of the sale of the subject property in 2021. Argued October 16, 2025—officially released April 7, 2026