With all due sympathy to those down on their luck, this is no way to run a railroad, or a foreclosure system
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A foreclosure suit on a mortgage secured by property at 118 Old Kings Highway, Darien, was initiated on February 25, 2014. Final judgment was entered on January 12, 2022. It was put on the MLS at $489,900, and sold yesterday for $514,395. That’s not the $600,000 or so that was owed, but at least there was a final ac to this saga.
From what I can gather from the pleadings, the original debtor died in 2010 leaving unpaid a $400,000 mortgage held by this lender’s assignor. A family member has resisted all attempts to collect the debt for 8 years, while paying nothing.
The defendant acted pro se during this entire lawsuit, and judges are always sympathetic to such people, even when, as this fellow did, they file repeated, spurious claims for bankruptcy (this guys claims were dismissed twice), file meritless appeals to the Appellate Court, and submit all sorts of nonsensical but creative pleadings, like this one, filed two days before judgment became final:
: January 10, 2022
THE DEFENDANT'S
NOTICE OF HEARING PURSUANT TO MULTILATERAL CONVENTION TO IMPLEMENT TAX TREATY
The Plaintiff filed the complaint in the instant case on June 3, 2016.
The Plaintiff has requested a hearing through its attorney,
Bendett McHugh PC.
3. The Defendant is enclosing an explanatory copy of the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty, ceding jurisdiction to the OECD, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, see exhibit "A". The treaty is law in the US, most European countries and major industrial countries around the World. Disputes are resolved through mediation followed by binding arbitration before the OECD..
4. The convention applies in the instant case in regard to unearned interest and lack of documentation.
: SUPERIOR COURT
5. The Defendant will forward a notice and a schedule within the next ten days, by January 21, 2022, advising of time and place to submit documentation and to prepare a joint application to the OECD. Several cases may be heard simultaneously
the OECD where one or more of the parties are the same.6, Wherefore, the instant Court is requested to take notice.
Apparently, the defendant had hopes of building a ShakeShack at this location, a project that was encountering some difficulties because of a lack of direct access to Old King’s Highway (and, it seems, no knowledge by Shake Shack of his plans) and it’s always sad to see a dream destroyed, but at some point, cases like this have got to end, just to stop them from clogging the courts and to allow our judicial system to function. In most states, that point is reached in 3-6 months; in Connecticut, 3-6 years would be quick.
