Order unanimously modified on the law and as modified affirmed with costs to defendants in accordance with the following Memorandum: Supreme Court properly granted that part of plaintiff's motion for summary judgment dismissing the fifth affirmative defense in the answer. The contention that a complaint fails to state a cause of action is not properly asserted as an affirmative defense (see, Guglielmo v Roosevelt Hosp. Staff Hous. Co.,
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