Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.
The plaintiff contends that CPLR article 16 must be pleaded as an affirmative defense and that the defendants are required to respond to a demand for a bill of particulars regarding the identity of possible codefendants. We disagree.
As a general rule, a statute should be construed according to the ordinary meaning of its words, and resort to extrinsic matter is inappropriate when the statutory language is unambiguous...
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