Per Curiam.
Our determination that the action, relief requested, rights and interests affected, and issues set forth in the complaint differed from the prior proceedings before the Surrogate of Monroe County precludes the assertion of the defense of res judicata under any circumstances. ( Erbe v. Lincoln Rochester Trust Co., 3 N.Y.2d 321.) As we previously held, the complaint states a cause of action in actual fraud. It follows, therefore, that the motion to strike paragraph 43 of the answer setting forth the defense as to certain allegations in the complaint should have been granted in accordance with our previous ruling.
The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the motion to strike should be granted.
Chief Judge CONWAY and Judges DESMOND, DYE, FULD, FROESSEL and BURKE concur in Per Curiam opinion; Judge VAN VOORHIS dissents and votes to affirm.
Order reversed, with costs in all courts, and appellants' motion to strike the partial defense ( res judicata) contained in paragraph "43" of the answer herein granted.