JEFF DZIEDZIC v. PINE ISLAND MARINA, LLC, 143 Conn. App. 644

Summary

ISSUE: Whether former employer was entitled to open a default judgment in a breach of contract action by a former employee. HOLDINGS: [1]-The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying the motion to open because, to the extent that an affiant averred that an unidentified party rendered legal advice to the former employer that was in error, as the former employer claimed in its motion to open, such negligence could not establish the requisite reasonable cause to open a judgment under Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-212; [2]-The trial court was not obligated, as a matter of law, to permit the former employer to also introduce live testimony by the affiant in support of the motion; [3]-The former employer failed to distinctly raise its claim that the testimony was admissible, as a prerequisite to appellate review, before the trial court.