Legal Opinion
Mutual Benefits Offshore Fund v. Zeltser
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided June 7, 2016No. 1381 650438/09PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Marcy S. Friedman, J.), entered September 24, 2014, which granted counter claim defendants-respondents’ motion to dismiss the amended verified counterclaims with prejudice and denied defendants/ counterclaim plaintiffs’ cross motion for, among other things, leave to use alternate forms of service, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
A counterclaim must assert a cause of action against the plaintiff (Ruzicka v Rager, 305 NY 191, 196 [1953]; see also New York Ind. Centre Corp. v National Biscuit Co., 14 AD2d 761, 761 [1st Dept 1961]). Although the original…
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- Voelker v. Bodum USA, Inc.Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017