DocketNumber: No. CV-98-0547193
Citation Numbers: 1999 Conn. Super. Ct. 7741
Judges: PURTILL, JUDGE TRIAL REFEREE.
Filed Date: 6/23/1999
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 7/5/2016
In paragraph four of the complaint, plaintiffs allege that the defendants have been unable to reach an agreement as to which of them owns the item and each of them demands return of the items to him. Plaintiff is unable to determine which of the defendants has the proper claim to the items. It is further alleged that plaintiff has no claim or interest in any of the items and is willing to turn the items over to such defendants as may be entitled to receive them as the court may direct. Plaintiff further claims an interlocutory judgment requiring the defendants to interplead concerning their claims to the items in the hands of the plaintiff.
Both defendants have appeared in this action but have failed to file responsive pleadings and on April 20, 1999 default was entered against both defendants. Subsequently the matter came before the court on a hearing in damages pursuant to Practice Book §
General Statute §
An interlocutory judgment of interpleader having been entered and defendants having failed to file any responsive pleading with default entered, the court may proceed to a final judgment of interpleader. At the hearing in damages evidence was introduced by the plaintiff. This evidence included the consignment sales agreement executed on August 10, 1995 between the defendants. In this agreement, defendant Orlins was referred to as the consignor and defendant Michaud was referred to as the consignee. Paragraph six of the agreement provides that "title to the merchandise consigned to the consignee by the consignor as identified on the attached exhibit with amendments shall remain in the consignor until such merchandise is sold by the consignee in the regular course of its business." The contracts executed with plaintiff, also in evidence, do not alter the basic contract between the defendants.
It is therefore found that title to the paintings held by the plaintiff is in defendant Scott Orlins.
Accordingly, judgment is rendered that plaintiff may deliver possession of the items in its possession to defendant Scott Orlins and be discharged from all liability to the defendants. It is also adjudged that plaintiff shall recover his expenses and a reasonable attorney's fee and costs. CT Page 7744
Joseph J. Purtill, Judge Trial Referee