In re the Estate of Kelsall

Appeals (1) from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Essex County (Meyer, S.), entered March 29, 2010, which granted petitioner’s application for preliminary letters testamentary, with limitations, and (2) from an order of said court, entered April 2, 2010, which, among other things, partially granted respondent’s motion for, among other things, discovery.

Upon his death in March 2008, decedent left a will indicating that it was executed in March 1994. However, the joint affidavit of the witnesses to the will was executed three years later, in May 1997. The will names petitioner as executor…