TOWN OF STRATFORD v. WAYNE N. LEBLANC ET AL., 175 Conn. App. 362

Summary

HOLDINGS: [1]-The trial court did not abuse its discretion in denying a property owner's motions to open a town's municipal tax lien foreclosure judgments because the owner failed to satisfy the reasonable cause prong of Conn. Gen. Stat. § 52-212 as he did not provide reasons for not appearing until years after the entry of the defaults, failed to appear in the actions until two months after the judgments were rendered, a fire that he alleged caused a loss of business records occurred five months after service of process and after the defaults had entered, and even if he may have been under the impression that the town was not pursuing the foreclosures during a period of time after the defaults entered, he did not have reasonable cause to fail to file appearances prior to the defaults.