Mt. Zion Baptist Church of Port Chester, Inc. v. Brown

The motion by certain plaintiffs and by the attorney for said plaintiffs, pro se, to dismiss the two counterclaims contained in the defendants’ answer herein on the ground that said counterclaims have been improperly interposed in this action, is denied. It is clear that these counterclaims against said plaintiffs and their attorney have been *29interposed pursuant to section 271 of the Civil Practice Act. Further, since the 1936 amendment to section 266 of the Civil Practice Act, a proper counterclaim may consist of any cause of action in favor of the defendant and the same need not be related…