Matter of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. v Lester, 2024 NY Slip Op 06501 [233 AD3d 1529]

December 20, 2024

Appellate Division, Fourth Department

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In the Matter of the Judicial Settlement of the Account of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as Trustee of the Trust under Agreement Dated March 7, 1996, by David Minkin for the Benefit of Robert Thall and Others (Trust No. 1.), Paul H. Briger (Trust No. 2.), Respondent, et al., Petitioner,

v

Peter Lester, Respondent, and Prescott Lester, Appellant.

Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt LLP, New York City (Maryann C. Stallone of counsel), for respondent-appellant.

Lippes Mathias LLP, Rochester (Svetlana K. Ivy of counsel), for petitioner-respondent.

Appeal from an order of the Surrogate’s Court, Monroe County (Christopher S. Ciaccio, S.), entered April 27, 2023. The order granted the cross-motion of petitioner JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., to strike the reply papers of respondent Prescott Lester and denied the motion of respondent Prescott Lester for a change of venue.

It is hereby ordered that the order so appealed from is unanimously affirmed without costs. Present—Whalen, P.J., Curran, Greenwood, Nowak and Keane, JJ..