Court Opinion

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Date Created: 2014-11-18 14:02:04.086171+00
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    E AND M CUSTOM HOMES, LLC v. ALBERTO
               NEGRON ET AL.
                 (SC 19118)
Rogers, C. J., and Palmer, Eveleigh, McDonald, Espinosa and Vertefeuille, Js.
        Argued October 30—officially released November 25, 2014

   David V. DeRosa, for the appellant (plaintiff).
  Raphael Deutsch, with whom, on the brief, was Ray-
mond J. Antonacci, for the appellees (named defendant
et al.).
                                 Opinion

   PER CURIAM. The plaintiff, E & M Custom Homes,
LLC, brought an action seeking the foreclosure of a
mechanic’s lien on certain real property belonging to
the defendants Alberto Negron and Luz Maria Negron1
in connection with services that the plaintiff had pro-
vided related to the construction of a single-family resi-
dence on the property. The defendants filed a
counterclaim alleging that the plaintiff had breached
its contract with the defendants, that it had failed to
comply with the provisions of General Statutes § 20-
417c (4), (6) and (7) applicable to new home construc-
tion contractors, and that these statutory violations con-
stituted a per se violation of the Connecticut Unfair
Trade Practices Act, General Statutes § 42-110a et seq.
The trial court rendered judgment for the defendants
on the plaintiff’s mechanic’s lien claim and for the defen-
dants, in part, on their counterclaim. Thereafter, the
plaintiff filed a motion for reconsideration, which the
trial court granted in part and, accordingly, reduced
the amount of the damages award. The plaintiff then
appealed to the Appellate Court, which affirmed the
judgment of the trial court. E & M Custom Homes, LLC
v. Negron, 140 Conn. App. 92, 112, 59 A.3d 262 (2013).
We granted the plaintiff’s petition for certification to
appeal to this court on the following issue: ‘‘Did the
Appellate Court properly affirm the trial court’s award
of damages on the defendants’ counterclaim when the
plaintiff claims that the amount due under the contract
exceeds the amount of damages claimed by the defen-
dants?’’ E & M Custom Homes, LLC v. Negron, 308
Conn. 912, 61 A.3d 1099 (2013).
  After examining the record on appeal and after con-
sidering the briefs and the arguments of the parties, we
have concluded that the appeal in this case should be
dismissed on the ground that certification was improvi-
dently granted. See Booth v. Flanagan, 220 Conn. 453,
454, 599 A.2d 380 (1991); Lawler v. Lawler, 212 Conn.
117, 118, 561 A.2d 128 (1989).
      The appeal is dismissed.
  1
    CitiMortgage, Inc., which was substituted for the original mortgagee of
the property, was also a defendant in the underlying action. We refer herein
to Alberto Negron and Luz Maria Negron as the defendants.