Rhoades

Pleading and practice; compulsory counterclaims; amendment of pleadings; timeliness. — On February 1, 1980 the court entered the following order:

*612Before Davis, Judge, Presiding, Kunzig and Bennett, Judges.

The issue in this case, before the court on plaintiffs motion to dismiss defendant’s counterclaim, involves the propriety and timeliness of that counterclaim. Because we find the counterclaim to have been filed in a timely manner within the procedures outlined by our rules, we hold for the Government.

Plaintiff filed the petition in this case on August 2, 1979, seeking wages he claims were…