In re the Estate of Czachor

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Montgomery County (Catena, S.), entered April 9, 1987, which, inter alia, denied respondent’s motion to conduct separate oral depositions of petitioners.

In this probate proceeding, petitioners have filed a claim against decedent’s estate in the amount of $20,585 for personal services they allegedly rendered on behalf of decedent from April 1985 through July 25, 1986. Petitioners maintain that these services were performed in consideration of decedent’s promise to compensate them in his will. The bulk of the estate was actually bequeathed to…