In re the Probate of the Alleged Will of Gardner

The opinion of the court was delivered by

DREIER, J.A.D.

Applicants for intervention, Sam Juffe and Irv Cyzner (“applicants”), have appealed from an order of the Law Division, Probate Part, denying them intervention in a will contest proceeding. Applicants are the assignees of the proponent of the will, Michael F. Padula, Jr., the devisee of a 100 acre farm in Hamilton Township, Mercer County. The caveators are Dorothy Van Aller, Priscilla Wilson and Phoebe Black, sisters of the decedent, David D. Gardner.

The applicants, interested in purchasing the farm in order to develop the land, approached…