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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Dorothy Ferrainolo, Respondent, v. Prudential Insurance Company of America, Appellant.
   Order unanimously modified by striking therefrom the third ordering paragraph and as modified affirmed, with $25 costs and disbursements to the plaintiff-respondent. Memorandum: In our opinion it was error to permit the plaintiff to serve a reply to the affirmative defense set forth in the answer. (See Hardecker v. Klem, 249 App. Div. 736; Taubenfeld v. Taubenfeld, 197 Misc. 1072.) (Appeal from order of Monroe Special Term denying defendant’s motion for summary judgment and -granting plaintiff’s cross motion to serve a reply and for a separate trial of the defense of release.) Present — Bastow, J. P., Goldman, Halpern, McClusky and Henry, JJ.