In re Estate of Lurie

Order, Surrogate’s Court, New York County (Renee R. Roth, S.), entered April 16, 2008, which, insofar as appealed from, denied petitioner-appellant’s application for preliminary letters testamentary, and instead granted letters of temporary administration to the Bank of New York, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the letters granted to the Bank of New York vacated, and appellant’s application granted.

In a petition dated February 14, 2008, appellant Daniel Z. Rapoport and petitioners Richard Nadelman and Gertrude Stein sought to probate the December 28, 2005 will of Boris Lurie…