Order permitting an amendment to the complaint affirmed, with $20 costs and disbursements to the respondent, with leave to the defendant to plead the Statute of Limitations.
It was held in Harriss v. Tams (258 N.Y. 229) that a complaint may be amended so as to introduce therein even a cause of action barred by the Statute of Limitations, but in such case the defendant cannot be deprived of that defense. The difference between such a procedure and dismissal...
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