Avery files a suit against beth, alleging that she failed to pay him for two months’ labor at her choice cheese factory. beth denies the charge and claims that avery breached their contract to produce a certain quantity of cheeses and owes beth damages for the breach. beth’s claim is

Beth’s claim is a counterclaim.

Explanation:

What is a counterclaim?

It a claim out forward by someone to offset the claim made first against them by the other part. Like this example above when someone sues you of having breached a contract and you sue them back to say they were the ones who had breached the contract this a counterclaim, you rebut the claim put against you.

So a person claims back to the person who has made a claim to them.

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