Wallingford v. GLEN VALLEY ASSOCIATES, INC.

How courts have described this case

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• pleading improperly entitled by the defendant as a cross complaint rather than counterclaim treated as a counterclaim
• denying counterclaim sounding in tort in action for foreclosure of tax lien
• \a counterclaim is a cause of action existing in favor of the defendant against the plaintiff.\
• the purpose of 116 is to avoid \multiplicity of litigation CT Page 8283 . . . and piecemeal disposition of what is essentially one action.\
• trial court properly denied permission to amend defenses that would have ‘‘assert[ed] what the court had disallowed in the coun- terclaim’’
• ‘‘[t]he transaction test is one of practicality, and the trial court’s determination as to whether the test has been met ought not to be disturbed except for an abuse of discretion’’ [internal quotation marks omitted]

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).