Court Opinion

ID: 5426977
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-08 16:44:13.713173+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:31:29.305274
License: Public Domain

Memorandum: Per Curiam.
A contingent or hypothetical pleading is improper. Such a pleading does not either deny or confess and avoid, as required by statute. (Stroock Plush Co. v. Talcott. 129 App. Div. 14.)
Order modified by granting1 plaintiff’s motion to strike out the first and second defenses in answer, with leave to serve an amended answer within five days after service of order entered hereon, and as modified affirmed, without costs.
Hammer, Shientag and Hecht, JJ., concur.