U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Healey

224 Conn. App. 867
CourtConnecticut Appellate Court
DecidedApril 23, 2024
DocketAC45761
StatusPublished
Cited by1 cases

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U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Healey, 224 Conn. App. 867 (Colo. Ct. App. 2024).

Opinion

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U.S. BANK TRUST, N.A. v. GREGG P. HEALEY ET AL. (AC 45761) Elgo, Seeley and Westbrook, Js.

Syllabus

The plaintiff bank sought, by way of a summary process action, to recover possession of certain real property from the defendants. The property had been subject to a strict foreclosure action, and ownership became absolute in the plaintiff after the law day had passed. The defendant parents, the former owners of the property, the defendant C, their adult daughter, and their son, D, continued to reside at the property after the law day had passed. A notice to quit was served on the parents and C. D was not served with notice because he was a minor at the time of service and service of a notice to quit possession on a minor was not required under the applicable statute (§ 47a-23 (c)). After this court affirmed the trial court’s judgment of possession for the plaintiff, the defendants moved to open and dismiss the judgment for mootness and lack of subject matter jurisdiction. The defendants claimed that, because D, who continued to reside at the property, had turned eighteen years old, the plaintiff was required to have served a notice to quit on him. Because the notice to quit could not be retroactively amended to include D, the defendants claimed that the judgment of possession became invalid, as all adults presently residing at the property had not been properly served pursuant to § 47a-23 (c) before the judgment of posses- sion had been executed. The trial court denied the defendants’ motion, finding that the notice to quit had been properly served on all adult occupants and the fact that D reached the age of majority after the judgment had been rendered did not cause the notice to quit to become defective. On the defendants’ appeal to this court, held that this court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the defendants’ appeal as the defendants were not aggrieved by the denial of their motion to open and dismiss the judgment of possession: the defendants were not classically aggrieved by the trial court’s decision denying their motion to open and dismiss the judgment as that motion was premised on their claim that D had not been served with a notice to quit as required by § 47a-23 (c), a claim that was based on a right or interest that allegedly belonged to a third party, D, who was a nonparty to the present action; moreover, even if the defendants arguably have a specific, personal, and legal interest in the subject matter of the judgment of possession to remain residing in the property, the defendants failed to identify a special, personal interest belonging to them that has been specifically and injuri- ously affected by the trial court’s decision denying the motion to open and dismiss; furthermore, the defendants failed to demonstrate that they were statutorily aggrieved under § 47a-23 (c), as the defendants did not 0, 0 CONNECTICUT LAW JOURNAL Page 1

0 Conn. App. 1 ,0 3 U.S. Bank Trust, N.A. v. Healey claim that they were not properly served with the notice to quit, rather, they claimed that D, a nonparty, was not properly served with notice, and there was no judicial relief that the defendants could seek under § 47a-23 (c), as the defendants’ claim related to the plaintiff’s alleged failure to comply with service under § 47a-23 as to D, a nonparty; accord- ingly, the appeal was dismissed. Argued January 8—officially released April 23, 2024

Procedural History

Summary process action, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Stamford-Norwalk, Housing Session, where the court, Spader, J., rendered judgment of possession for the plaintiff, from which the defendants appealed to the this court, Alvord, Cra- dle and Palmer, Js., which affirmed the trial court’s judgment; thereafter, the court, Baio, J., denied the defendants’ motion to open and dismiss the judgment of possession; subsequently, the court denied the defen- dants’ motion to reargue, and the defendants appealed to this court. Appeal dismissed. Gregg P. Healey, self-represented, with whom, on the brief, were Bridgette G. Healey, self-represented, and Claire A. Healey, self-represented, the appellants (named defendant et al.). Vincent J. Averaimo, for the appellee (plaintiff). Opinion

SEELEY, J. The defendants Gregg P. Healey, Bridgette G. Healey, and Claire A. Healey appeal, chal- lenging the trial court’s denial of their motion to open and dismiss the judgment of possession rendered in favor of the plaintiff, U.S. Bank Trust, N.A., as trustee for LSF9 Master Participation Trust.1 On appeal, the 1 The complaint also named several individuals: John Doe I, Jane Doe II, John Doe II, Jane Doe III and John Doe III. Those parties have been removed and are not participating in this appeal. We refer herein to Gregg P. Healey, Bridgette G. Healey, and Claire A. Healey collectively as the defendants and, where appropriate, individually by name. Although the defendants’ appeal form lists the date of the court’s denial of their motion to reargue the court’s decision denying their motion to open and dismiss the judgment of possession, and the defendants’ appellate brief Page 2 CONNECTICUT LAW JOURNAL 0, 0

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defendants claim that the judgment of possession, although valid when originally rendered, is no longer valid as a result of the fact that Connor Healey (Con- nor),2 the son of Gregg P. Healey and Bridgette G. Healey, who also resides at the premises, has since turned eighteen years old and was never served with a notice to quit. As a result, the defendants claim that the court was deprived of subject matter jurisdiction with respect to the judgment of possession and that the judgment, therefore, should have been dismissed. We conclude that the defendants are not aggrieved by the denial of their motion to open and dismiss and, accordingly, dismiss their appeal.

The following facts and procedural history are rele- vant to the defendants’ appeal. This case has a lengthy procedural history, largely due to the numerous motions and appeals filed by the defendants. This case originated in 2010 as a foreclosure action against Gregg P. Healey and Bridgette G.

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