In re Estate of Hall

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Warren County (Moynihan, Jr., S.), entered July 7, 1993, which, inter alia, denied petitioner’s motion for a protective order.

Decedent John S. Hall, an attorney who operated a law practice in Warren County, executed a will in 1974 which, inter alia, bequeathed to petitioner, his son, his "law business and all real and personal property * * * connected with said business * * * subject to the payment of all debts and claims incurred in the course of the operation of said business”. By a subsequent codicil decedent bequeathed the sum…