U.S. Bank, N.A. v. Armijo

Citations

• 195 Conn. App. 843

Syllabus

The plaintiff bank, U Co., sought to foreclose a mortgage on certain real property owned by the defendants A and C. A and C were defaulted for failure to plead and the trial court rendered a judgment of strict foreclosure. Thereafter, the court denied C's postjudgment motion to dismiss, which alleged that U Co. did not have standing. The court granted C's motion to reargue and ordered that the motion to dismiss be reheard. The court subsequently denied C's motion to dismiss and C's motion to reargue that decision. C then filed a second motion to dismiss for lack of standing, which the court denied, and A and C appealed to this court. This court thereafter granted in part U Co.'s motion to dismiss this appeal. Held that this court could not review A and C's challenge to the judgment from which they had appealed; A and C failed to brief, or even mention, the trial court's judgment denying their second motion to dismiss, the defendants' brief was limited to their challenge of the court's findings of standing and jurisdiction, which were decided in earlier rulings from which a timely appeal was never taken, and the defendants failed to challenge the bases on which the court denied the second motion to dismiss, which were the law of the case doctrine and the denial of C's motion to reargue. Argued November 20, 2019—officially released February 18, 2020