Order affirmed, with $10 costs and disbursements.
Neither res judicata nor collateral estoppel may be applied since the court in the first action denied the plaintiffs herein the right to raise the claim as a defense to the first action. Further, since we are reversing the judgment in the first action (see Ciardiello v. Pugliese,
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