21 Conn. App. 191 - Sweet v. Sumnerbrook Mill Development Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
18 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Town Bank & Trust Co. v. Benson · Three S. Development Co. v. Santore · Ledgebrook Condominium Assn., Inc. v. Lusk Corporation · Augeri v. C. F. Wooding Co. · 2 Conn. App. 388 - Babiarz v. Hartford Special, Inc.
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“The language of our prejudgment remedy statutes; General Statutes 52-278a et seq.; requires that the court determine "whether or not there is probable cause to sustain the validity of the plaintiff's claim"; General Statutes 52-278d (a); that is to say, "probable cause that judgment will be rendered in the matter in favor of the plaintiff." General Statutes 52-278c (a)(2). "The legal idea of probable cause is a bona fide belief in the existence of the facts essential under the law for the action and such as would warrant a man of ordinary caution, prudence and judgment, under the circumstances, in entertaining it." . . . Probable cause is a flexible common sense standard. It does not demand that a belief be correct or more likely true than false . . . The hearing in probable cause for the issuance of a prejudgment remedy is not contemplated to be a full scale trial on the merits of the plaintiff's claim. The plaintiff does not have to establish that he will prevail, only that there is probable cause to sustain the validity of the claim . . . The court's role in such a hearing is to: determine probable success by weighing probabilities. (citations omitted)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“. . . determine probable success by weighing probabilities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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