The issue presented on this appeal is whether an executor, by introducing evidence of the opening of bank accounts and withdrawals therefrom tending to show that property belonging to the estate of decedent was in the possession of respondents, "opened the door" and thereby waived the protection of CPLR 4519, the so-called "Dead Man's Statute", allowing respondents to introduce evidence of a personal...
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