May Department Stores Co. v. First Hartford Corp.

RULING ON PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO STRIKE THE FOURTH AND SIXTH AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES

BLUMENFELD, District Judge.

This is a diversity action for specific performance of a contract and for related relief. Plaintiff, The May Department Stores Company (“May”) alleges two causes of action: first, that defendants breached an alleged contract between May and defendant First Hartford Realty Corporation to convey a leasehold interest in department store premises then occupied by defendant Forbes & Wallace, Inc., a partially owned subsidiary of defendant First Hartford Corporation; second, that the…