Opinion
(SC 16433)
Argued September 25, 2001
Officially released October 23, 2001
Action to recover damages for nonpayment of wages allegedly owed to certain employees of the defendant Specialty Publishers, Inc., and for other relief, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Hartford-New Britain at Hartford, where the defendant Specialty Publishers, Inc., et al. were defaulted for failure to appear; thereafter, the matter was tried to the court, Hon. Frances Allen, judge trial referee, as against the named defendant et al. and as a hearing on damages against the defaulted defendants; judgment for the plaintiff, from which the named defendant et al. appealed to the Appellate Court, Landau, Zarella and O'Connell, Js., which affirmed the trial court's judgment, and the named defendant et al., on the granting of certification, appealed to this court. Appeal dismissed.
Robert A. Ziegler, with whom were Leslee B. Hill and Edward B. Bradley, for the appellants (named defendant et al.).
Glenn A. Woods, assistant attorney general, with whom were Edward F. Reynolds, Jr., and Gary G. Williams, assistant attorneys general, and, on the brief, Richard Blumenthal, attorney general, for the appellee (plaintiff).
Opinion
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 improvidently granted.
We granted the defendants' petition for certification to appeal from the judgment of the Appellate Court; Petronella v. Venture Partners, Ltd ., 60 Conn. App. 205, 758 A.2d 869 (2000); limited to the following issue: "Were the defendants employers for purposes of General Statutes 31-72 and thereby liable for wages due employees that were earned prior to the defendants' involvement with the employer corporation?" Petronella v. Venture Partners, Ltd. , 255 Conn. 909, 763 A.2d 1035 (2000).
The appeal is dismissed.