Opinion
(SC 15890)
Argued December 8, 1998
Officially released January 19, 1999
Action to establish the paternity of the plaintiff's minor child, and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Litchfield, where the court, Dranginis, J., granted the plaintiff's motion to cite in Patricia Welch as a party defendant, granted the plaintiff's motion for the parties to submit to genetic testing, and ordered the exhumation of the remains of the defendant's decedent for DNA testing, and the defendant et al. appealed to the Appellate Court, O'Connell, C.J., and Foti, Heiman, Schaller and Dupont, Js., which granted the plaintiff's motion to dismiss for lack of a final judgment, and the defendant et al., on the granting of certification, appealed to this court. Appeal dismissed.
Frederic E. Mascolo, for the appellants (defendant et al.).
James Wu, with whom was Joseph J. Fairchild, for the appellee (plaintiff).
Kenneth J. Bartschi, with whom were Susan M. Cormier, Bridget Jenkins and, on the brief, Michael McHale, legal intern, for the minor child.
After examining the record on appeal and considering the briefs and oral arguments of the parties, we have determined that the appeal in this case should be dismissed on the ground that certification was granted improvidently.
We granted the defendants' petition for certification to appeal limited to the following issue: "Did the Appellate Court properly dismiss this appeal for lack of a final judgment?" Lach v. Welch, 244 Conn. 912, 713 A.2d 830 (1998).