Syferlock Technology Corp

The plaintiffs, two former employees of the defendant, sought to recover damages from the defendant for, inter alia, breach of their employment contracts and failure to pay wages pursuant to statute (§ 31-72). The trial court rendered judgment in favor of the plaintiffs on their respective claims for breach of written contract and failure to pay wages pursuant to § 31-72, and in favor of the defendant on the plaintiffs' respective claims for breach of oral contract. The court declined to award the plaintiffs double damages or attorney's fees as provided by § 31-72, reasoning that such an award is appropriate only when the trial court has found that the defendant acted with bad faith, arbitrariness, or unreasonableness, which the trial court concluded was not demon- strated in the present case, and the trial court declined to award prejudg- ment interest on the amounts awarded to the plaintiffs. On appeal, the plaintiffs claimed that the trial court erred in finding that there was no bad faith, arbitrariness, or unreasonableness on the part of the defendant to support an award of double damages and attorney's fees with respect to the plaintiffs' claims for failure to pay wages pursuant to § 31-72, and that the trial court abused its discretion in not awarding prejudgment interest pursuant to statute (§ 37-3a (a)). Held that this court declined to address the merits of the plaintiffs' claims, the plaintiffs having failed to provide this court with an adequate record: pursuant to the applicable rule of practice (§ 61-10 (a)), the plaintiffs, as the appellants in the present case, bore the burden of providing this court with an adequate record for review; moreover, although the trial occurred over three days, the plaintiffs failed to provide this court with any transcripts and, in the absence of such transcripts, this court could not evaluate the plaintiffs' arguments under the applicable standards of review without resorting to speculation; accordingly, the judgment of