Swiers v. P & C Food Markets, Inc.

— Appeal from an order of the Supreme Court at Special Term (Crangle, J.), entered August 24, 1982 in Saratoga County, which granted plaintiff’s motion for an examination before trial of defendant James Brown at which the witness Stephen Middleton would be excluded and of Stephen Middleton at which defendant James Brown could be present. In this action for slander, pretrial depositions of defendant James Brown and witness Stephen Middleton, an employee of the corporate defendant P & C Food Markets, Inc. (P&C), were scheduled for July 19, 1982. On that date, plaintiff’s attorney requested that…