Opinion
No. CV 03 0195314
April 14, 2004
MEMORANDUM OF DECISION
According to a supplemental brief by the plaintiff, HSBC Bank, dated December 18, 2003, the plaintiff seeks a prejudgment attachment of property of the defendants, Alex Wong and Jillian Wong, who are residents of Connecticut, "pending the outcome of an action brought in the State of New York State, Supreme Court, County of Monroe, encaptioned HSBC Bank v. PC Computer Rental Corp., Alex Wang and Jillian Wong, bearing Index Number 2217/02 (the "New York Action")."
In Cahaly v. Benistar Property Exchange Trust Company, Inc., 268 Conn. 264, 275, 842 A.2d 1113 (2004), our Supreme Court ruled that: "[s]ince a plaintiff cannot bring an action to enforce a foreign judgment until that foreign judgment is obtained, a plaintiff likewise cannot base an application for a prejudgment remedy on an action to enforce a foreign judgment until that foreign judgment is obtained."
Hence, the plaintiff's application for a prejudgment remedy is denied.
The file indicates that the plaintiff and Alex Wong entered into an agreement whereby the plaintiff was entitled to an attachment of that defendant's interest in certain realty, so this decision applies technically, or at this time, to Jillian Wong.
So Ordered.
William B. Lewis, Judge TR