Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court (Kavanagh, J.), entered July 11, 2002 in Sullivan County, which granted plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment dismissing defendants’ counterclaims.
In this action to collect defendants’ share of sums due pursuant to the terms of a note and mortgage, defendants plead counterclaims which relate to the affairs of a partnership in which plaintiff Raymond Gold, defendants and others were partners in the ownership of an unrelated parcel of land. We affirm Supreme Court’s dismissal of the counterclaims because they fall within the prohibition against partners suing each other for matters relating to the affairs of the partnership prior to an accounting of the partnership business (see Wynne v Gruber,
Mercure, J.P., Peters, Carpinello and Lahtinen, JJ., concur. Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
