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VENTRES v. GOODSPEED AIRPORT, LLC

No. 18260.

21 A.3d 709 (2011)

301 Conn. 194

James VENTRES et al. v. GOODSPEED AIRPORT, LLC, et al. Goodspeed Airport, LLC, et al. v. Inland Wetlands and Watercourses Commission of the Town of East Haddam et al. Goodspeed Airport, LLC, et al. v. East Haddam Land Trust, Inc., et al.

Supreme Court of Connecticut.

Decided June 14, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dean M. Cordiano , Hartford, with whom were John R. Bashaw , New Haven, Rene A. Ortega and, on the brief, Daniel J. Foster , for the appellants (Goodspeed Airport, LLC, et al.).

Kenneth J. McDonnell , Essex, and Alexandria L. Voccio , Hartford, with whom, on the brief, was John J. Radshaw III , for the appellees (James Ventres et al.).

ROGERS, C.J., and NORCOTT, PALMER, ZARELLA, McLACHLAN and EVELEIGH, Js.

McLACHLAN, J.

This appeal, which arises from the clear-cutting of trees on land abutting the Goodspeed Airport in the town of East Haddam, illustrates the importance of the doctrines of res judicata and collateral estoppel in safeguarding the principles of the finality of judgments and judicial economy. Goodspeed Airport, LLC (airport), Timothy Mellon and Timothy Evans, doing business as Evans Contracting (collectively, airport parties), appeal1...

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