APPLICATION OF HÖRLER

No. M19-84.

799 F.Supp. 1457 (1992)

In re Application of Adolf HÖRLER to take the testimony of certain persons for use in a probate proceeding pending in Oberengadin, Switzerland, pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1782.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

July 7, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Schurtman, New York City, for applicant.

Fred I. Sonnenfeld, Tammy Bigelow, Sullivan & Cromwell, New York City, for respondent.

Julius Kaplan, Washington, D.C., for intervenor Francesca Agusta.


MEMORANDUM & ORDER

BRIEANT, Chief Judge.

By motion fully submitted on April 21, 1992, applicant Adolf Hörler moves to compel two New York attorneys to produce certain documents in connection with a foreign probate proceeding. The Court will briefly summarize the tangled history of this litigation, which, the reader is warned, in some respects resembles the plot of a "Dynasty" episode; in others, regrettably, it recalls the infamous case of Jarndyce...

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