Clinton v. Aspinwall
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The Supreme Court vacated the judgment of the appellate court reversing in part the judgment of the trial court in this action to recover damages for, among other things, breach of contract, and remanded this case with directions to dismiss the appeals for lack of subject matter jurisdiction, holding that the same threshold jurisdictional rule set forth in Meribear Productions, Inc. v. Frank, 183 A.3d 1164 (Conn. 2018), applies in the context of civil jury trials.
At issue was whether an appeal can be taken from a judgment in a multipoint civil action with fewer than all counts of a plaintiff's complaint accounted for in that judgment. In Meribear Productions, Inc., the Supreme Court held that, in the context of a court trial, when legally consistent theories of recovery have been litigated but not all theories have been ruled on, there is no final judgment for purposes of appeal. The Supreme Court held in the instant case that the same threshold jurisdictional rule applies in the context of a civil jury trial to protect against appeals from nonfinal judgments.
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