Court Opinion

ID: 9651668
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-23 16:30:39.247635+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:12:37.259351
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CLARK, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
While I think the plaintiff’s pleadings can doubtless be improved by amendment, *118and am thereafter satisfied with the result here reached, yet even amendment does not appear to me to he strictly necessary as the pleadings stood below. For the plaintiff has been allowed to plead, as a counterclaim in his reply, a claim for rescission of the agreement of settlement, together with judgment ior the money asserted to be due. Downey v. Palmer, D. C. S. D. N. Y., 31 F.Supp. 83. See also. D. C. S. D. N. Y., 27 F.Supp. 993, where defendant was later granted permission to amend her answer before the judgment of dismissal was entered. D. C. S. D. N. Y., 32 F.Supp. 344. A counterclaim in a reply is permitted, Federal Rules 13 and 18(a), and thus the claim for rescission was legally pleaded. Such a claim is within the period of limitation allowed for. fraud claims, Schenck v. State Line Teleph. Co., 238 N.Y. 308, 144 N.E. 592, 35 A.L.R. 1149; Hopkins v. Lincoln Trust Co., 233 N.Y. 213, 135 N.E. 267, and damages may be . given as an incident to it. Equitable Life Assur. Soc. v. Kushman, 276 N.Y. 178, 184, 11 N.E.2d 719. Hence it would seem to me that there was already before the court an adequate claim for all the relief the plaintiff needs.