DocketNumber: No. 32 86 01
Citation Numbers: 1998 Conn. Super. Ct. 2745
Judges: MORAGHAN, J.
Filed Date: 3/4/1998
Status: Non-Precedential
Modified Date: 4/17/2021
An evidentiary hearing was convened on February 2, 1998. At the hearing, the plaintiff testified that he received a telephone call from the defendant about a week after the papers were served. During the telephone conversation, the defendant admitted that she had received the papers.1 The defendant and the CT Page 2746 defendant's attorney were not present at this hearing. The only evidence that the defendant has submitted to the court is her affidavit in which she attests that on June 29, 1997, she was a resident of the State of New Jersey, residing at 5 Horizon Road, Apartment 1202, Fort Lee. She continued that she had been a resident of New Jersey for fourteen years.
She has clearly failed to meet her burden of proof. The affidavit merely establishes that she is a resident of New Jersey. A defendant, however, "may have two or more places of residence within a State, or in two or more States, and each may be a usual place of abode. . . . Service of process will be valid if made in either of the usual places of abode." (Citation omitted; internal quotation marks omitted.) Clegg v. Bishop,
Moraghan, J.