Court Opinion

ID: 9465803
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-05 00:56:12.229112+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:39:22.852879
License: Public Domain

VANCE, Circuit Judge,
dissenting in part and concurring in part.
The majority opinion contains a fair statement of the issue whether defendant’s counterclaim is compulsory or permissive. I do not agree, however, that the pertinent portion of our opinion in Spartan Grain & Mill Co. v. Ayers, 581 F.2d 419 (5th Cir. 1978), is dictum. In any case I am of the view that it correctly held such counterclaims to be permissive. I therefore dissent from the majority’s contrary holding.
In all other respects, I concur in the majority opinion.