Senior v. Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.

Special Term properly vacated the discovery demands as overbroad. Assuming, arguendo, that some of the interrogatories were proper, many more, such as numbers 1-6, which seek the identities of every sponsor of, participant in and beneficiary of both the Master IRA and Master Keogh plans offered by defendants from 1979 to 1983 are clearly unreasonable and irrelevant. “The burden of serving a proper demand is upon counsel and [it is] not for the courts to correct a palpably bad one” (Itzkoff v Allstate Ins. Co., 59 AD2d 854, 855; Roberts v Modica, 92 AD2d 563; Martino v Mid-Island Hosp., 73…