Case ID: conn-supp_33/html/0520-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Walter D. Hill v. Harold Monroe
    Appellate Session of the Superior Court
    File No. 116
    Argued November 19, 1975
    decided March 12, 1976
    
      Leo Losen, for the appellant (plaintiff).
    
      Dominic J. Ferraina, for the appellee (defendant).
   Per Curiam.

Although testimony was presented at the trial of this injunctive action in the trial court, the plaintiff never requested any finding but simply filed his assignment of errors. Such a procedure is permissible where the plaintiff relies wholly upon error apparent on the face of the record. Practice Book § 567A. All of the assignments of error raised by the plaintiff, however, involve the conclusions of the trial court with respect to various provisions of the Bloomfield zoning ordinance as applied to the defendant’s activities on his land. A finding is necessary “when the appellant desires to have reviewed the court’s conclusions upon the facts of the case.” Practice Book § 567A.

Further, the plaintiff failed to file a designation of the contents of the record as required hy Practice Book § 554. The pleadings are before us, but the only paragraphs of the complaint which have been admitted are insufficient to allow consideration of any of the assignments of error. We do not even have a copy of the zoning ordinance before us, let alone any facts concerning the wrongful activities of the defendant which are relied upon in the plaintiffs brief.

Although a memorandum of decision was filed by the trial court, it is not in the form of a finding of facts, in accordance with Practice Book § 567F, which is required if the memorandum is to be treated as equivalent to a finding. Practice Book § 570B.

It is clear that the errors claimed by the plaintiff are not apparent on the face of the record and that a finding would be necessary to consider them.

Accordingly, the appeal is dismissed suo motu.

Speziale, D. Shea, and Spohzo, Js., participated in this decision.