C.B. Foods, Inc. v. Quarex Co.

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for fraud, the plaintiffs appeal from (1) an order of the Supreme Court, Putnam County (Hickman, J.), dated August 14, 1992, which granted the respondent’s motion (i) to dismiss the plaintiffs’ third cause of action for failure to state a cause of action, (ii) to dismiss the causes of action asserted by C.B. Foods, Inc., because it is not a party, (iii) to sever the contentions of C.B. Foods, Inc., and Christopher Bock from the second cause of action, and (iv) to strike certain matters from the complaint as scandalous, prejudicial, and…