Nourse v. Nourse

This action arises out of an estate plan by which a family farm was left solely to one of four siblings. The plaintiffs are the three siblings who challenge the estate plan, alleging that the four siblings were to inherit the family farm jointly but that, less than two weeks before his death, and subject to improper influence, the decedent changed his estate plan.

The subject of the within motion is Attorney Roger B. Leland, the decedent’s attorney and confidante, who drafted the documents concerning the estate plan. On February 1, 1999, the plaintiffs served Leland with a deposition subpoena…