Opinion
Argued February 7, 1980
Decision released February 19, 1980
Action to recover damages for breach of contract, brought to the Superior Court in the judicial district of Fairfield at Bridgeport where the defendant failed to appear; a default was entered and the issue of damages was tried to the court, Landau, J.; judgment for the plaintiff, which the court refused to open, from which the defendant appealed to this court. No error.
Bruce M. Killion, with whom, on the brief, was Gregory C. Willis, for the appellant (defendant).
Irwin J. Gordon, for the appellee (plaintiff).
The denial, as here, of a motion to open a default judgment does not constitute an abuse of discretion where it clearly appears that the defaulting party has no defense or that he has not been prevented from appearing by mistake, accident or other reasonable cause. General Statutes 52-212; Practice Book, 1978, 377; A.D.C. Contracting Supply Corporation v. Thomas J. Riordan, Inc., 176 Conn. 579, 580-81, 409 A.2d 1027 (1979); Manchester State Bank v. Reale, 172 Conn. 520, 523, 375 A.2d 1009 (1977); see Mechanics Savings Bank v. Tucker, 178 Conn. 640, 643, 425 A.2d 124 (1979).