286 A.D. 849 | N.Y. App. Div. | 1955
In a contested probate proceeding, contestant appeals from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Nassau County, granting in part and denying in part his motion to vacate a notice of demand for a bill of particulars of the objections. Order modified by striking out the ordering paragraphs, and by substituting therefor the following: “ Ordered that the said motion be and the same hereby is granted in all respects”. As so modified, order affirmed, without costs. The denial of the motion with respect to certain particulars was an improvident exercise of discretion. Nolan, P. J., MacCrate, Schmidt and Ughetta, JJ., concur; Murphy, J., dissents and votes to affirm the order without modification, with the following memorandum: At the trial proponent will rest on the instrument and the testimony of the subscribing witnesses. The burden of going forward will then shift to contestant. The real trial will start upon production by contestant of proof in support of his objections. The office of a bill of particulars is to afford a party all information necessary to enable him to know definitely the claim of his adversary under the latter’s pleading. The courts are liberal in granting such bills. (Elman v. Ziegfeld, 200 App. Div. 494, 497.) The granting of a bill does not depend upon the facts or knowledge of the