Opinion ID: 2217203
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Heading: failure to file counterclaim in foreclosure action.

Text: Des Moines Savings foreclosed its mortgage and secured personal judgment against West. West now says AGI is barred under rule 29, R.Civ.P., because the claim it now makes was not brought as a counterclaim in the foreclosure action. We recently discussed rule 29 in Walters v. Iowa-Des Moines National Bank, 295 N.W.2d 430 (Iowa 1980). The rule is designed to avoid a multiplicity of suits. If within the definition of compulsory counterclaim, a claim is lost unless asserted in the original suit brought by the opposing party. There is no logical relationship between the foreclosure action and the present claim. They do not arise out of the same transaction. We hold that the claim which is the subject of the present litigation was not a compulsory counterclaim under rule 29 in the foreclosure action.