MacDonald v. Windfield Business Papers, Inc.

—In an action, inter alia, to recover damages for breach of contract, the plaintiff appeals from an order of the Supreme Court, Suffolk County (Costello, J.), dated March 2, 1999, which denied his motion to dismiss the defendant’s counterclaims as barred by the Statute of Limitations.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, with costs, the motion is granted, and the counterclaims are dismissed.

The defendant’s original answer did not give notice of the transactions and occurrences which are the basis of the counterclaims asserted in the amended answer. Since the defendant’s pleadings…