Opinion
June 22, 1942.
In an action for an accounting, order striking out, as insufficient in law, the three partial defenses and the three counterclaims contained in defendant's amended answer, reversed on the law and the facts, with ten dollars costs and disbursements, and the motion denied, with ten dollars costs, but without prejudice to respondents' right to renew their motion for the alternative relief sought under rule 103 of the Rules of Civil Practice. Defendant, in the three partial defenses and the three counterclaims for reformation, alleges that there is a discrepancy between the terms as settled by the preliminary treaty and those embodied in the written contract attached to the complaint. It is well settled that where there has been no mistake in the agreement but a mistake merely in reducing it to writing, a court of equity may reform the writing and it is not essential to allege that the mistake in reducing it to writing was mutual. ( Hart v. Blabey, 287 N.Y. 257, 262; Born v. Schrenkeisen, 110 id. 55: Pitcher v. Hennessey, 48 id. 415.) As the court, in granting the motion, did not consider the alternative relief sought under rule 103 of the Rules of Civil Practice, plaintiffs may renew their motion for that relief if they be so advised. Lazansky, P.J., Hagarty, Carswell, Johnston and Adel, JJ., concur.